Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush

@article{Allen2007InformationSD,
  title={Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush},
  author={Douglas W. Allen},
  journal={The Journal of Economic History},
  year={2007},
  volume={67},
  pages={944 - 967},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154301382}
}
When George Carmack struck gold in the Yukon territory on 17 August 1896, he freely shared the details and started what would eventually be three waves of rushes. This reflected a social norm of the Klondike, namely that any miner who struck gold would share this information. Miners did not behave this way in other nineteenth-century gold rushes. The article's hypothesis is that the extreme mining conditions and local geography of the Yukon led to very secure property rights over mining claims… 
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