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Gold Fever

The 1890's in America were desperate times. A depression brought bank and business failures and forced millions of men and women from their jobs. When gold was discovered in a frozen no man's land between Canada and Alaska, 100,000 people made the treacherous journey in search of riches.
Aired: May 12, 1997 Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 55m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: GBH