He was too young to read the message scratched on the back, but four-year-old Richard Fike knew he loved the carriage clock he had found in Alaska while his dad was working on the Alaska Highway in the 1940s. When he did learn to read, among the first words he mastered were the ones on that clock, “cleaned Aug. 4, 1896.” When he got old enough to study history, he realized the clock had been cleaned just 12 days before gold was discovered in what became the Klondike Gold Rush. He felt a


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