Gold mining in Alaska creeks – Glacier, Nugget and Cottonwood – produced significant gold. The area around Reid Inlet, in modern Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, hosted several hard rock gold prospects, including the LeRoy mine, which exploited quartz veins for about 10,000 ounces of gold production. The district, which includes Skagway and Haines, is bordered to the north and east by Canada. To the west is the Pacific Ocean and the Chichagof District lies to the south. The Discovery Channel series Gold Rush Alaska takes place in this region. In 1880 a local inhabitant, Chief Kowee, revealed to prospectors Joe Juneau and
Gold Rush Daze gold found in the hills, to which the attendant steals the prospector's car to get back in on the gold rush and hands the prospector the gas station. Included in the film is a short, farcical musical number, “My Sweetheart Needs Gold for Her Teeth." Gold Rush Daze Gold Rush Daze is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 25, 1939. A prospector drives to the hills to dig for gold. A local gas station attendant goes on to explain that the prospector is wasting his time: since 1849, he had been chasing gold strikes around the world and