yes, no matter what your nationality is.
with a hammer and a stake
The Klondike Gold Rush.
I staked a claim in gold country. I used a stake to help my tomato vine. After he made his bet, I raised my stake.
You ask for THE figurative image and there would be many of them, however the origin of the expression is from the gold rush when people would stick a stake in the ground to claim a piece of land.
In "By the Great Horn Spoon!" by Sid Fleischman, miners could stake a claim by placing a wooden stake into the ground with their name and the date written on it. This marked their territory as a mining claim, giving them the right to mine for gold in that area.
Staking a claim regards asserting claim and or control over an aforementioned object or quantity. The infinitive verb "to stake," historically referred to a wooden marker, also known as a "stake," used to mark property.
Yukon are famous for their gold.
yes it is in the yukon store
A potato
People can not stake a claim to land unless they have the legal right to. Having proof of ownership in the form of a deed is the best way to claim land.
They literally staked a claim by putting pegs(stakes) in the corners of the area claimed.
During the Klondike Gold Rush (or Yukon Gold Rush), there was massive immigration and gold prospecting along the Dawson River in the Yukon Territory, in Northwestern Canada.