American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Companies across the United States offered to sell all the supplies a gold seeker would need to take to the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

George Carmack,Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie were the first men to discover a great amount of gold in the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He ordered the Treasury Department to sell gold to block the attempt by Gould and Fisk to control the gold market.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The three men had found one of the largest amounts of gold ever discovered lying on the surface of the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

History records say that in only four years the area around Dawson produced more than fifty-one million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

You can put your hands through a hole in a clear, plastic box and hold the huge piece of gold.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn also experienced a sweet victory when she won the gold medal in the womens downhill ski race.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

He was a mine manager in Leadville who developed a way to safely mine for gold deeper than before.

VOA: special.2010.03.08