All one of a kinds. That's back in the mid 1800's folks. It's a fortune. Lawyers, pimps, bankers, enterprising women, ministers. Two routes exist to the Klondike.
Sled dogs are first choice for travel.
Of 3000 that set out on the trail, less than a dozen survive. They are left to rot by the thousands where they drop along the trail. A bullet used is a bullet wasted. The prospectors' hearts have frozen. It's a spectacle DeMille could not have envisioned.