Parker Schnabel has always been greatly influenced by his grandfather John Schnabel.
Six years ago, John Schnabel, one of the stars of the Discovery Channel reality series Gold Rush, passed away in his sleep. He was the owner of the Big Nugget mine in Porcupine Creek, Alaska. He was 96.
Schnabel was born in Kansas on February 11, 1920, the son of a wheat farmer. The family farm was lost during the Great Depression, and his father eventually moved to Alaska.
Having seen quite a rough start in his earlier life, things dramatically changed for him when luck and hard work came into play.
He began earning money as a paper boy when he was 12 years old. He bought a loaf of bread and a slab of cheese for his family with his first paycheck. Then, he traveled with his father in 1939 and arrived in Haines, Alaska. On March 10, 1939, he boarded a steamer at the age of 19.
The miner himself stated that he believed Alaska would be a good area for him to succeed.
Parker Schnabel, the star of Gold Rush, paid his grandfather a heartfelt homage on social media in 2021 while he remembered him.
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