To Nome and Beyond
Mar 01, 2022
2 minutes
by Andrew Matthews
New rumors began circulating in 1899: Gold had been found on Seward Peninsula, on the other side of Alaska from Yukon.
The rumors were true. That spring, more than 8,000 miners left the Klondike goldfields and headed westward. It became the first placer gold discovery in Alaska itself.
Credit for the discovery
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