Still, Alaska is far from being an untouched wilderness today, and, in fact, was not pristine even a century ago. When the Harriman Expedition arrived in 1899 ... gold prospectors arrived at Nome ...
By the summer of 1899, there were rumours about another gold rush in Nome, Alaska. Within a week, half of Dawson emptied. The Klondike Gold Rush had run its course.
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9 -- Authentic reports received to-day from the new Nazina gold diggings in the Copper River Valley, 200 miles inland from Valdes, prove Nazina to be the richest strike made in Alaska since Nome ...