fast-becoming-famous

Updated: May 18, 2025

It frequently became necessary for one of us to journey through the now more sparse timber, up the slaty, moss-covered, mountainous "divide," and over to the claims on the fast-becoming-famous Ophir Creek. In the absence of rain, and with the encouragement of the wind or a little sunshine, the ground, up to a certain point, dries remarkably soon, and furnishes fairly good footing.

Lanier McKee - The Land of Nome: A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea: gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and: the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901)