The Alaska Gold Rush often only required a tie.”

The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the First World War. It was actually three rushes, each different and unique in American history. One rush was to Nome.

But you could only pan the beaches for gold for 120 days. Then winter froze the sands of the Bering Sea solid. Nome was different from all other gold strikes because you could get there by steamship.

But it was expensive.

As a result, the stampeders to Nome were older, richer and inclined to view the trip to Nome as an lark. If you look carefully you will see this stampeders to Nome are well-dressed, carry their ‘gear’ in suitcases rather than packs, and none of them seemed to have missed a meal in the last decade.

THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ALASKA GOLD RUSH

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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

The Alaska Gold Rush often only required a tie.”

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