“Hey! What’s in that bottle?!”

Yes, there’s a good chance the ‘stuff’ in the bottle is whiskey. But then again, when you are digging in the sands of Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush, you needed that ‘stuff.’  A lot of the gold in Nome was on the beach.  You could not stake a claim because it was federal property so it was ‘finders keepers.’ When the tide was low. 12 hours a day. Note the boats in the background. And, yes, Nome was an equal opportunity strike. No one cared who you were; they just cared for what they could pull out of the sand – 12 hours a day, from June 15th to September 10th. After September 15th the ocean was covered with 15 feet of ice from Nome to Siberia. 

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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