The Great River Journey - Horizon & Co.

Thars’gold inthemtharhills...day 7The cultural richness of Dawson City is a perfect counterpoint to thestark beauty of the preceding days of wilderness. Today we will explore itsEdwardian streets, attend a poetry reading at the home of Robert Service,marvel at the log cabin where Jack London spent his winters, and pan fornuggets at a working mine. For our final dinner, we will enjoy a sumptuousfeast and then celebrate amidst the renowned hospitality of DiamondTooth Gerties, the local hotbed of gambling and cabaret shenanigans.- Dawson City -Where We play: For millennia, Dawson was used by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr’ondëkHwëch’in as a small fishing camp, but everything changed on August 17, 1896, when Skookum JimMason discovered gold. The Klondike Gold Rush had begun and Dawson City was transformed intothe Paris of the North.