How did the miners survive in the goldfields?

The VERY BEST short description I could find is about one page long .... so it will npt fit here .... so here is the site .... a href="http://www.questconnect.org/ak_klondike.htm" rel="nofollow"http://www.questconnect.org/ak_klondike.…/a .... it is of course for the YUKON goldrush which as you can see had much harsher living conditions than the California gold rush ... in the Yukon MINUS 60 happened quite often ...