“The money just VANISHED?! All $40,000 of it!”

 In Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush, Scurvy Bill, Two Tooth Mike and Half-Kid, stole $40,000 in gold from the Canadian Bank of Commerce. (That’s about $1.5 million today.)

A step ahead of a posse, the trio hid out in the attic of Wilson Mizner, a loveable scoundrel in Nome.  Mizner was also a Deputy United States Marshal. Mizner then led the posse to search for the men who were hiding in his attic.

The men were never found. (No surprise there.)

Neither was the gold. (Also, no surprise.)

And Mizner left Nome for Hollywood.

The Human Face of the Alaska Gold Rush

https://youtu.be/Y7cqZpQMI_s

Why not take a ‘listen’ to the dark side of Alaska?

For free!!

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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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