Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...
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NEW GOLD FIND IN ALASKA.; The Nazina District Said to be the Richest Strike Since Nome.
9 -- Authentic reports received to-day from the new Nazina gold diggings in the Copper River Valley, 200 miles inland from Valdes, prove Nazina to be the richest strike made in Alaska since Nome ...
I work in the Alaska mining industry. I sometimes get paid in gold, but the job comes with long hours and grueling conditions.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Peterson, a 41-year-old gold miner in Alaska who has built ...