... What would've happened if Russia found all that gold in Yukon?
Would Trump still be president then? (jk)
Color me late, a captain obvious, insult me if you will. But this lockdown got me reading up on random things, and for some reason I was just reading an article on a sourdough museum in Belgium and the museum's administrator brought up the story of stampeders being checked by border guards in the late 1800s when they were walking to Yukon, they had to show these guards that they had food enough to make it a year in Yukon. So they had all these canned goods and wore sourdough starters in pouches around their neck that they would use to make flapjacks or whatever
Which led me to wonder why Alaska is not a part of Canada (I'm not in or from the US so this is not elementary school syllabus), and I just found out USA bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 and found the gold a little later and that to me is mindboggling trivia
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