Erik Lindbolm, one of the three Swedes who struck it rich and spurred the Nome Gold Rush, would pass away at his residence in the Claremont Hotel in Oakland, which he owned, on September 23rd, 1928, 30 years and one day after the discovery in Alaska that made him famous. Lindbolm had purchased the Claremont […]
On September 11th, 1958, at the age of eighty-four, “The Bard of the Yukon,” Robert W. Service, famed poet and writer, died in Lancieux, Côtes-d’Armor, France. Service was renowned as the poetic teller of tales, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” and the “Cremation of Sam McGee,” and many others. Many mistakenly believed that Service was […]
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Austin “Cap” Lathrop, long called Alaska’s first millionaire, spent over five decades in Alaska after purchasing a steamboat and moving to Alaska in the mid-1890s. He made his fortune through investments in Alaska. It was on July 26th, 1950 that the aged Lathrop was crushed when, at 84, he fell beneath the wheels of a […]