Page "Nome, Alaska" Paragraph 15

In the summer of 1898, the " Three Lucky Swedes ": Norwegian-American Jafet Lindeberg, and two naturalized American citizens of Swedish birth, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, discovered gold on Anvil Creek.

News of the discovery reached the outside world that winter.

By 1899, Nome had a population of 10, 000 and the area was organized as the Nome mining district.

In that year, gold was found in the beach sands for dozens of miles along the coast at Nome, which spurred the stampede to new heights.

Thousands more people poured into Nome during the spring of 1900 aboard steamships from the ports of Seattle and San Francisco.

By 1900, a tent city on the beaches and on the treeless coast reached, from Cape Rodney to Cape Nome.