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 […]
The first, and one of the largest placer gold finds, was discovered on the Seward Peninsula by three Swedes, Jafet Lindeberg, Erik Lindblom, and John Brynteson at Anvil, Glacier, Rock, and Dry creeks, and Snow Gulch Creek on September 22nd 1898. Those early finds would spur a rush to the peninsula, and by Spring of […]
On September 0th, 1915, The Cordova Daily Times broke the news that William Van Valin, a noted explorer, lecturer, and teacher, had discovered a “Lake of Oil” a mile inland from Smith Bay, approximately halfway between Wainwright and Utqiagvik (Point Barrow) Van Valin described and photographed streams of crude two feet thick flowing from the […]
This day, September 3rd, marks the day in 1941 that nine officers and 221 enlisted men arrived in Nome to protect the Marks Army Airfield, named after Major Jack S. Marks, a pilot from Ladd Army Airfield who died in the Aleutians. The field was completed and opened in July of that […]