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Article: NOME SWEET NOME WHERE FRONTIER SPIRIT FLOURISHES.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1997
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Byline: Roman Dial Universal Press Syndicate.
If Alaska could be worked like pay dirt for gold, most cheechakos (Alaska's version of a greenhorn) would rightfully prospect in Denali National Park or the Arctic Refuge for prime nuggets of scenic wealth and wildlife. But the real sourdoughs know where to find the mother lode of Alaskan frontier culture: Nome.
Nome, in Alaska's wild west, was born of an exodus from the Yukon's Klondike, a stampede to the Bering Sea in which 20,000 men mined more than a million dollars in gold from its beaches nearly 100 years ago.
Today, with the population whittled to 5,000, miners still pitch tents on the dunes ...