Gold Rush Database Sources
Benjamin F. Craig, post office worker
list of people dying or leaving the Klondike
(13,852 records)
Benjamin F. Craig
was a post office worker in Dawson City. He maintained a list of people leaving
the Klondike by death or departure. Many of the almost 14,000 entries list forwarding
addresses or destinations for those leaving the Klondike. The predominance of
Nome, Alaska as one listed destination is consistent with other historical records
documenting a mass exodus from Dawson to Nome in 1899. Like a giant nomadic tribe,
thousands streamed toward Nome when rumours hit Dawson that there were flakes
of gold in the sands of Nome's beaches.