Everything about George Carmack totally explained
George Washington Carmack (
September 24,
1860 –
June 5,
1922) was a
Contra Costa County, California-born
prospector in the
Yukon. He was originally credited with the discovery of gold that set off the
Klondike Gold Rush on
August 16,
1896. Today, historians usually give the credit to his brother-in-law,
Skookum Jim Mason.
Carmack's mother died when he was 8 years old and his father died when he was 11. His great-grandfather was
Abraham Blystone.
Carmack arrived in the north in
1885 and trading, fishing and trapping. He married a
Tagish First Nation woman who went by the name
Kate.
Carmack wasn't popular with other miners who nicknamed him "Squaw Man" for his association with native people and "Lyin' George" for his exaggerated claims. Nevertheless, he did find a
coal deposit near what is today the village of
Carmacks, Yukon which was named after him.
In August 1896, he and Kate were fishing at the mouth of the
Klondike River when Skookum Jim, his nephew
Dawson Charlie and another nephew found them. Prospector Robert Henderson who had been mining gold on the Indian River, just south of the Klondike, suggested that he should try out Rabbit Creek, now Bonanza Creek, where the gold discovery was made.
He abandoned Kate in
1900 when he moved to Seattle with their daughter. He died in Seattle in 1922.
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