MAJOR GOLD RUSHES OF THE 19TH CENTURY
NOME, ALASKA (1899–1909)
n September 1898, the ‘Three Lucky Swedes’ (Erik Lindblom, John Brynteson and Norwegian-American Jafet Lindeberg) discovered gold on Anvil Creek and founded Nome mining district. Soon, however, more gold was spotted simply lying in the beach sand, extractable without the need for a claim. By 1900, a tent city sprawled across 30 miles of
