The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the First World War.  It

There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.

In the days before the automobile, everything you needed came to your local store in

When it comes to sexual equality, until 1919 women were not guaranteed the right to

During the Alaska Gold Rush, communities were erupting from the earth and then ‘going ghost’

In Nome, anyone could, in actuality, find gold just lying on the ground. In sand,

Some things in Alaska do not change. From the Alaska Gold Rush until today, the

Nome, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, does not have any nearby forests.

George Franklin Wade had an astonishing record of both criminal activity and escapes. He was

This is the interior of a real Alaska Gold Rush saloon.  It was in Koyukuk

lice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, didn’t give a whit about the ‘proper

To this day, one-third of Alaska’s population lives in villages that are not connected to