article_snippet.sent: Keith Wolfe Smarch, a First Nation master-carver, had abandoned work on a totem pole to guide me along the infamous Chilkoot Trail, where hundreds of men and thousands of pack animals lost hundreds of men and thousands of pack animals lives as hundreds of men and thousands of pack animals headed to Canada's frozen wastes during the Klondike Gold Rush.
article_snippet.sent: Keith Wolfe Smarch, a First Nation master-carver is descended from Skookum Jim, the first man to find gold in a remote riverbed in the Yukon in 1896.
article_snippet.sent: Right, some of the original Gold Rush prospectors .
article_snippet.sent: Just a couple of miles away in Bonanza Creek, I met up with Sylvia and Sylvia sister, Ginny, who are both descended from an original prospector.
article_snippet.sent: both site at Claim 33 was close to the spot where Skookum Jim made Skookum Jim historic find.
highlights_snippet.sent: Follow in the footsteps of the Gold Rush prospectors .
  