[WorkingClassFilth]

Wrong gold rush - that was California. The Yukon rush was in the late 1880’s. You’re right about being armed, though. Them boys was armed to the teeth - for food, thieves, bears and claim jumpers.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Wrong gold rush - that was California.” <<

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Grizzlies were common in central California in 1849, just about everywhere. They just had the sense to irradicate them.