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听译 Gold Rush Today we tell the second part of our story about the discovery of gold in the area of Canada called the Yukon. We tell about the thousands of people who traveled to Alaska and on to Canada hoping that they would become rich. 32” 38” Last week, we told how three men discovered huge amounts of gold near the Yukon River in northwestern Canada. Their discovery started a rush of people traveling to the American territory of Alaska and across the border to Canada. History experts believe that between twenty and thirty thousand people traveled to the area. 1:09” Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy to become rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground. Books and magazines told how to travel to the area and the best method of finding gold. However, most of this information was false. It was not easy to find gold. It was extremely hard work under very difficult conditions. 1:46”/////// 1:47” The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway, Alaska on July twenty-sixth, eighteen ninety-seven. These people were very lucky. It was summer and the weather was warm. However, they found few places to live in Skagway. Most people had to make temporary houses out of cloth. 2:19” Skagway was a very small port town. It had very few stores. And everything was very costly. 2:30” Skagway also had a crime problem. One of the chief criminals was a man named Jefferson Randolph Smith. He was better known as Soapy Smith. He did his best to take money from men who were on their way to seek gold. 2:54” One method he used seems funny, now. Soapy Smith had signs printed that said a person could send a telegram for five dollars. Many people paid the money to send telegrams to their families back home to say they had arrived safely in Skagway. 3:18” But they did not know that the telegraph office wires only went into the nearby forest. It was not a real telegraph office. It was a lie Soapy Smith used to take money