Klondike Gold Rush Thousands stampede to the Yukon with dreams of riches A Seattle newspaper headline touched off the frenzy in 1897. It read "Gold, Gold, Gold - A Ton of Gold." ...

That seemed like the end of the story for The Gold Rush. But beginning in the 1980s, film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill started searching for any surviving reels from the original version.

Bessie Jim and Colleen James in Carmacks, Yukon. (Tyson Koschik/CBC) The discovery of gold along the Klondike River in 1896 drew a stampede of about 30,000 people, hoping to get rich.