Final resting place - The steamer Eliza Anderson, which had plied the treacherous northern waters since 1883 is shown beached at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where she eventually broke up. The boys from ...

The California Gold Rush is well known and much studied but the Alaskan Gold Rush is far less talked about. In his new book The Floor of Heaven, bestselling author Howard Blum tells the story of the ...

How locals saw the Yukon Gold rush, and why Fairbanks, Alaska was named after a young “gold adventurer” from Petaluma. In Petaluma, during the Christmas Season of 1897, Sweed’s Great Bargain House, ...

The Koyukuk River doesn’t loom large in gold rush era histories of Alaska, though not for lack of effort. As would-be prospectors flooded into Alaska and the Yukon following the 1896 Klondike gold ...

Join me on an unforgettable gold digging adventure in Alaska, exploring the historic sites of Ketchikan, Skagway, and Juneau.

I’ve found numerous references in Alaskan gold rush literature to a scam by the Trans-Alaskan Gopher Company that purported to sell trained gophers that would dig into the tundra and come back with ...