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单词 klondike fever
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Klondike fever
a. Used attributively with reference to the gold-rush period, as Klondike fever, Klondike (gold) rush, etc.
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1897 Slocan (Brit. Columbia) Pioneer 31 July 4/2 The Klondike fever has struck Slocan City in a mild form.
1898 Cent. Mag. Mar. 697/2 These men made their way home, as best they could, out of the wreckage of the first Klondike rush.
1898 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 124 Men's Klondike mining coats... Men's Klondike sleeping bag... Men's Klondike shirts.
1912 H. Footner New Rivers of North 192 We guessed that we were upon the spot where our last white predecessors had made camp in the year of the Klondike rush.
1948 Life 2 Feb. 49/3 78-year-old Emil J. N. Ott,..a veteran of the Klondike Rush, who smelts rough gold into ingots.
1958 Encycl. Canadiana VI. 15 (caption) Hundreds watch as the Australia..leaves Seattle for the North at the height of the Klondike fever.
1961 Tamarack Rev. XIX. 4 For a long time, before the Klondike days, there was a feud and a battle between them two logging camps.
1964 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 11 July 3/6 The past 60 years have obscured or distorted the extraordinary strength and endurance, and the Klondike wealth of the erstwhile sourdough who became a legendary character during his own lifetime.
1965 Star Weekly (Toronto) 2 Jan. 37/2 Mrs. MacCleave was a young girl at the height of the Klondike gold rush.
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