The Klondike Gold Rush is commemorated through film, literature, historical parks etc.
Heritage properties
The Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada, protects a series of eight properties that attest to the effects of the rapid colonization of the area, including the Gold Rush, on the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people. The World Heritage Site was designated in 2023.
Literature
Fiction
Among the many writers taking part in the Gold Rush was writer Jack London, whose books The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and his short story "To Build a Fire" (1902 and 1908), were influenced by his northern experiences. London was inspired to write stories by various adventurers he met. The Thousand Dozen, for instance, was inspired by a brief market corner on eggs created by "Swiftwater" Bill Gates. Part I of Jack London's 1910 novel Burning Daylight is centered on the Klondike Gold Rush.
Another literary luminary connected with the rush, and whose cabin still stands in Dawson City, was folk-lyricist Robert W. Service, whose short epics The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1907) and other works describe the fierce grandeur of the north and the survival ethic and gold fever of men and women in the frozen, gold-strewn north. Service's best-known lines are from the opening of The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907), which goes:
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold;
One of the last books of Jules Verne, Le Volcan d'Or (The Volcano of Gold), deals with the terrible hardships endured by the gold-seekers in the Klondike. The Klondike became a popular setting for adventure stories and travel memoirs in North American and European markets.
James A. Michener's 1988 novel Alaska (chapter VIII) and his short novel Journey describe the harsh realities of the Klondike Gold Rush using fictional characters.
The 1997 book "Jason's Gold" by Will Hobbs (not published until 1999) was about a boy who went to Klondike in search for gold and his experience there.
Canadian author Vicki Delany writes the Klondike Gold Rush series of mystery novels from Dundurn Press, which include Gold Digger (2009) and Gold Fever (2010) and Gold Mountain (May 2012).