The Klondike Gold Rush is commemorated through film, literature, historical parks etc.

Heritage properties The Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada, protects a series of eight properties that attest to the effects of the rapid colonization of the area, including the Gold Rush, on the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people. The World Heritage Site was designated in 2023.

Literature Fiction

Among the many writers taking part in the Gold Rush was writer Jack London, whose books The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and his short story "To Build a Fire" (1902 and 1908), were influenced by his northern experiences. London was inspired to write stories by various adventurers he met. The Thousand Dozen, for instance, was inspired by a brief market corner on eggs created by Swiftwater Bill. Part I of Jack London's 1910 novel Burning Daylight is centered on the Klondike Gold Rush.

Another literary luminary connected with the rush, and whose cabin still stands in Dawson City, was folk-lyricist Robert W. Service, whose short epics The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1907) and other works describe the fierce grandeur of the north and the survival ethic and gold fever of men and women in the frozen, gold-strewn north. Service's best-known lines are from the opening of The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907), which goes:

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold;

One of the last books of Jules Verne, Le Volcan d'Or (The Volcano of Gold), deals with the terrible hardships endured by the gold-seekers in the Klondike.Olivier Dumas, Preface to The Golden Volcano, 1989. The Klondike became a popular setting for adventure stories and travel memoirs in North American and European markets.

James A. Michener's 1988 novel Alaska (chapter VIII) and his short novel Journey describe the harsh realities of the Klondike Gold Rush using fictional characters.

The 1997 book "Jason's Gold" by Will Hobbs (not published until 1999) was about a boy who went to Klondike in search for gold and his experience there.Hobbs, Will. Jason's Gold, HarperCollins, 1999

Canadian author Vicki Delany writes the Klondike Gold Rush series of mystery novels from Dundurn Press, which include Gold Digger (2009) and Gold Fever (2010) and Gold Mountain (May 2012).

Non-fiction

The Gold Rush of the Klondike and Alaska created a sub-genre of non-fiction that explores the depths of historical and cultural aspects of the Gold Rush. The publication of Klondike: The Last Great Goldrush (1958) by Canadian journalist and author Pierre Berton began this trend. Klondike was the first comprehensive account of the Klondike gold rush and quickly became a bestseller. Other influential books include:

The Klondike Gold Rush (2013) By Graham B. Wilson. Collects 125 archive pictures illustrating the journey north and the struggle of toiling in the gold fields.

Soapy Smith: Skagway's Scourge of the Klondike (2005) By Stan Sauerwein. A story of the American North's greatest conman and huckster. Soapy Smith 'mined the miners' through swindles and fraud until he was killed in a gunfight in the streets of Skagway.

Women of the Klondike (1996) By Frances Backhouse. The book highlights the roles of women, who played a critical role during the Gold Rush. Backhouse delves into the lives of women -- entrepreneurs, nuns, doctors, nurses, journalists, and dancehall entertainers among them.

Gold at Fortymile Creek (1995) By Michael Gates follows the accounts of the first gold-seekers in Alaska and the Yukon from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896. Gates captures the essence of this aspect of history, about which little has been written.

The Klondike Stampede (original edition 1900) By Tappan Adney. Perhaps the best first-person account of the Klondike Gold Rush. Adney was a journalist for Harper's Weekly sent by the magazine to chronicle the event. In 1897, he took a steamship to Skagway, then traveled into Canada over Chilkoot Pass, to Dawson, and on to the Klondike River.

Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush: Songs and History (1999) By Jean Murray. A comprehensive collection of lyrics, score, chords and background information on songs and parodies by professional musicians and gold seekers for the entire Klondike era. Includes about 100 songs from the Gold Rush era, which are now in the public domain.

Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush (1998) By Lael Morgan. Alaskan journalist Lael Morgan chronicles the stories of the prostitutes and "disreputable" women in the entertainment and sex industries who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.

Bo at Ballard Creek (2013) By Kirkpatrick Hill, LeUyen Pham (illustrator). Taking place in the 1920s, the book centers on Bo, an orphaned girl who is raised by two male gold miners after the gold rush.

Hollywood on the Klondike: Dawson City's Great Film Find (2023) By Michael Gates. The book documents the history behind a hoard of silent films found buried beneath the permafrost of Dawson City. Gates gives insight into Klondike's role in the making of the West Coast vaudeville circuit and the creation of Hollywood itself.

Film and television Charlie Chaplin's silent film The Gold Rush (1925), the highest-grossing silent comedy, was set in the Klondike. Also about the gold rush were Lev Kuleshov's silent-era adaptation of Jack London's "The Unexpected" By the Law (1926), the silent epic The Trail of '98 (1928), and Mae West's Klondike Annie (1936).

A number of animated cartoons satirized the Klondike Gold Rush, including: The Klondike Kid (Walt Disney, 1932), starring Mickey Mouse Dangerous Dan McFoo (Warner Bros., 1939) The Shooting of Dan McGoo (MGM, 1945), starring Droopy Klondike Casanova (Famous Studios, 1946), starring Popeye the Sailor Bonanza Bunny (Warner Bros., 1959) "14 Carrot Rabbit" (Warner Bros, 1952), starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam

The 1946 comedy Road to Utopia, directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, is set during the rush.

Life in Dawson City during the gold rush was the subject of the 1957 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary City of Gold, directed by Colin Low (filmmaker) and Wolf Koenig and narrated by Pierre Berton. The documentary won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for best short film and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects.

The 1955 film The Far Country is a Western set in Skagway and Dawson City during the gold rush era. It was directed by Anthony Mann and stars James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, and Walter Brennan.

The gold rush was the subject of the NBC series Klondike, which aired from 1960–1961. It starred Ralph Taeger and James Coburn and episodes were directed by William Conrad, Elliott Lewis, and Sam Peckinpah.

The 1978 TV special What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! is set during the Gold Rush, but is disputed to be the 1925 serum run to Nome.

The 1980 film Klondike Fever depicts Jack London during the gold rush and stars Jeff East as London alongside Rod Steiger as Soapy Smith, Lorne Greene as Sam Steele, and Gordon Pinsent as Swiftwater Bill.

The 2012 episode "Murdoch of the Klondike" of the series Murdoch Mysteries is set during the gold rush and guest stars Aaron Ashmore as Jack London and Matt Cooke as Sam Steele.

The 2014 Discovery Channel miniseries Klondike stars Richard Madden as Bill Haskell, a real-life adventurer who travels to Yukon, Canada, in the late 1890s, during the gold rush. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, it also features Abbie Cornish as Belinda Mulrooney, Sam Shepard as William Judge, Marton Csokas as Sam Steele, Ian Hart as Soapy Smith, Johnny Simmons as Jack London, and Colin Cunningham as Swiftwater Bill.

The TG4 series An Klondike (Dominion Creek in the United States) aired for two seasons from 2015–2017 and stars Owen McDonnell, Dara Devaney, and Seán T. Ó Meallaigh as three fictional Irish brothers who become involved in the gold rush. Set in the fictional town of Dominion Creek, Skookum Jim (portrayed by Julian Black Antelope), Belinda Mulrooney (portrayed by Bríd Ní Neachtain), Soapy Smith (portrayed by Michael Glenn Murphy), Sam Steele (portrayed by Steve Wall), and William Judge (portrayed by Clive Geraghty), also appear in the series.

Music and theater Theatre entertainment in Dawson and later Nome was an extension of theater on the West Coast, especially San Francisco and Victoria. Promoters brought a seemingly endless supply of singers and dancers North, some of whose names became part of the gold rush vocabulary. Diamond Tooth Gertie, Diamond Lil, Oregon Mare, Nellie the Pig.

Sopranos, the rarest and most valuable of female singers, pretended to have links to the French opera: Nellie La Marr, Blanche La Mont, Minnie La Tour, and Gussi LaMore were common names.

National performers like Ida Rossiter, Florence Brocee, Anna Kane, Beatrice Lorne graced the North, joined even by the Black Hills' Calamity Jane, who tried to make a comeback in the Klondike.

The northern gold rush inspired a whole group of songs by composers across the country. Tunes in ragtime and Gay Nineties style, appeared within days after news of the Klondike gold strike arrived in American and Canadian cities.

A number of songs written about the northern gold rush became national best sellers as the first disc records began to be used with phonographs, or gramophones around the mid-1890s.

The Klondyke march and two step. (Music Emporium, Kingston, Ontario, 1897) Music by Oscar Telgmann.

"He's Sleeping in the Klondike Vale Tonight" (Howley, Haviland & Co. 1897) Words and music by M.J. Fitzpatrick

"The Klondike: March of the Miners" (Willis Woodward & Co. 1897) Words and music by Theodore Metz.

"In Klondyke's Field of Gold" (W.A. Pond & Co. 1897) Words and music by A. S. Eldridge.

"Rory, Bory, Alice" (M. Witmark & Sons 1898) Words by George Bowles. Music by William Potter Brown.

"Klondike Rag" (William R. Haskins Co. 1908) Words and music by George Botsford.

"In the Far-Off Alaska Clime" (1898) Words and music by Robert E. Lee Yokum.

"On the Banks of the Yukon Far Away" (F. B. Haviland 1910) Words and Music by Martin T. Chester.

The 1907 Comic Opera The Alaskan, which included the song "Bah, Bah Black Sheep", written by Seattle Times Managing Editor Joseph Blethen, with music by leading man Harry Girard.

The discovery of gold on the beaches in Nome in the fall of 1898, more than 1,000 miles downriver from Dawson ended the Klondike "rush" for good, although gold production increased in the region until 1903 as dredging and hydraulic mining replaced panning and hand-digging. Fully 8,000 Dawson City residents decamped to Nome over the winter of 1899-1900.

The expansion of demand for live talent shows during the Gold Rush led to a permanent change to North America's entertainment landscape. New vaudeville circuits prospered as entrepreneurs began building grandiose theaters with striking Gilded Age, neo-classical architecture in many Western cities, in particular, the Pantages theater chain.

Two of the most significant vaudeville impresarios in the early 20th century – Alexander Pantages and John Considine – had their start in the northern gold rush.