People went to find gold to be rich.  There are 100,000 man went to find gold near the US, Alaska and Canadian, Yukon Territories.  Many people came from the US.  Their families stay behind so all the man go and mine for Gold.  They traveled there boat then they need to walk to where the gold was.  The price of gold they mined was $19.39 per ounce but now it is 1639.63 CAD on this second Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:07.  They found between $30million and $660 million.  How much was the gold back then?  you do the math.  Some people get food by hunting animals.  That is why they went to travil there and mine for gold.The Gold Rush