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Dawson City is a town of 2,400, known for being the heart of the historic Klondike Gold Rush that began in 1896.

Its people, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, were displaced after the Klondike gold rush brought nearly 17,000 new settlers.

As scarce as born-and-bred Washingtonians have become in Seattle, it still can’t compare to the Klondike gold rush days, when hardly anyone was from here.

Seattle has ties to Alaska going back to 1897, when the city made itself the hub for fortune seekers setting off for the Klondike gold rush, at the same time making us the premier business city in the Northwest.

According to HistoryLink, the online site compiling Washington history, “Bartell took a breather from his pharmacy in 1897 to join the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon. But he returned to Seattle in 1898, and late in the year opened a new drugstore, named Bartell’s Owl Drug Store, at 506 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle. In 1904 the Bartell Drug Company was incorporated, and later that year Bartell opened a second drugstore downtown which became known as the Red Cross Annex.”