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03:0403:04, 1 May 2024 diff hist −29‎ Council, Alaska ‎ Reduced population from 15,000 to 4,000 to align with official gover<ref></ref>ment reports.<ref></ref> current

20:0920:09, 23 September 2023 diff hist +26‎ m Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Clarified earlier edit making it easier to understand
20:0520:05, 23 September 2023 diff hist +21‎ Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Changed Dawson’s population rose to 30,000 in spring 1898 to Dawson and goldfield’s population in spring 1898. According to Yukon Commissioner James Walsh’s 1898 report, the population of Dawson was 17,000 and if you included the creeks the Klondike’s population was 30,000.
17:3717:37, 23 September 2023 diff hist +2‎ m Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Changed steamship Excelsior arriving in San Francisco from July 15 to July 14. According to the San Francisco Call of July 15, the Excelsior came in “yesterday.”

21:5521:55, 21 September 2023 diff hist −9‎ Klondike Gold Rush ‎ No contemporary evidence Dyea was under the control of Soapy Smith Tag: Manual revert
21:5321:53, 21 September 2023 diff hist +9‎ Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Used wrong word. Meant to write Dyea, not Skagway. Undid revision 1176423080 by Ruthiegirl9 (talk) Tags: Undo Reverted
16:5816:58, 21 September 2023 diff hist −23‎ m Dyea, Alaska ‎ Changed “believed to have had control of Dyea,” to “may have had control of Dyea.”
16:5216:52, 21 September 2023 diff hist −9‎ m Klondike Gold Rush ‎ No contemporary evidence exists that Soapy Smith controlled Skagway. Tag: Reverted

17:5017:50, 20 September 2023 diff hist −9‎ m Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Removed unnecessary brackets around three names.
16:3216:32, 20 September 2023 diff hist −57‎ Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Removed Kate Carmack from discovery party because her biographer, Deb Vanasse, concludes from the evidence that she remained behind at fish camp while the three men prospected upriver. Changed Dawson Charlie’s name to Tagish Charlie because that is the name he used on his Bonanza Creek claim form as well as the name he was known by throughout the rush. He wasn’t called Dawson Charlie until he left the gold fields and moved to Carcross around 1900.
16:1716:17, 20 September 2023 diff hist 0‎ Klondike Gold Rush ‎ Changed Dawson’s 1898 population from 30,000 to 17,000 based on North West Mounted Police census of July 19, 1898. Available online at Canadian Research Knowledge Network, http://heritage.Canadians.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t13243/1285?r=0&s=1

18:2418:24, 17 February 2023 diff hist −6‎ Skagway, Alaska ‎ Took out one extraneous word
05:3805:38, 17 February 2023 diff hist +444‎ Skagway, Alaska ‎ Corrected the statement that Jesse Murphy was “accredited” with killing Soapy Smith. While some people today think that is true, it was not the official conclusion of the Coroner’s Inquest, which ruled after witness testimony and autopsy reports that it was Reid’s bullet that killed Smith. I have included the source of the Inquest report and the wording of their conclusion.