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Article: PHOTOGRAPHER MADE A BID FOR KLONDIKE FAME.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 18, 1997
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John T. Wagness never found the Eldorado of fame he sought by photographing the Klondike Gold Rush. Like the tens of thousands of others who trekked north from Seattle, his hopes lay scattered and frozen in the hardscratch, and he returned virtually penniless to his family in the Puget Sound area.
With almost apostolic fervor, he had sold his successful photo studios in Tacoma and left his wife and several children behind as he followed a successful in-law back to the Eldorado Creek claims in 1899.
In the preceding two years, ships reaching Seattle with tons of Klondike gold made Puget Sound everyday words around the civilized world. But Wagness, who was ...