In the summer of 1899, the sleepy fishing village of Nome, close to the Arctic Circle, remote even by Alaskan standards, became one of the most exciting places in the world. Gold had been discovered on the shores of the Bering Sea the previous summer. Josephine and Wyatt Earp were drawn to Nome as one more place to seek their fortune.
Their journeys had taken them from Arizona to Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Texas and California. After their investments in downtown San Diego soured and Wyatt’s re

April 2014
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- Peter Iverson on Navajo History
- Nez Perce in Yellowstone
- Gunsmoke’s Gun for Hire
- Rough Drafts 4/14
- Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
- Battle of the Plaza
- A Saga of Bloody Kansas
- On the Trail of History
- CSI: Fort Union
- Profile in Leadership
- Texas Hill Country Trail: Cavalry, Cowboys and Germans
- Mules & Canyons, Oh My!
- On the Trail of Old Arizona
- Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- Buried Treasures
- April 2014 Events
- What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
- Rambles Through the Nebraska Panhandle
- Following North Dakota’s Sheyenne River
- Bozeman Trail
- Thomas Brent Smith
- Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
- Race, Rodeo and the West
- Huber’s Café
- Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
- Living for the Dream in Your Heart
- Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West?
- Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?
- Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers?
- Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car?
- On the California Trail: Salt Lake City to Sacramento
- Timothy O’Sullivan
- JUSTIFIED: SEASON FOUR
- True Westerner of 2014
- The First Lincoln County War