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The Fortymile gold rush in 1886 was to the Fortymile River, a trans-boundary river with its headwaters in Alaska, USA and its confluence with the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory in Canada. The Fortymile River is so named because the mouth is 40 miles downstream from an old (now defunct) trading post called Fort Reliance, approximately 8 miles downstream of the present site of Dawson City. (There is also a Sixtymile River, which is about 60 miles upstream of Fort Reliance.)

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