In the summer of 1898, during the peak of the gold rush, there were as many as 10,000 people in the town. By 1900, the population was down to 3,117 and below a thousand residents by 1910.

This made Hills Bros. of San Francisco the primary choice of early gold rush cabin dwellers. The pungent beverage was so popular in Alaska it inspired an archaeologist to produce a field guide ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the "strangling angel." Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its ...