gieger's

Updated: May 1, 2025

Even the dirt in those miserable Nome streets contained "colors," or small particles of gold; and it is an incongruous thought that, of all the cities of the world, Nome City, as it is called, most nearly approaches the apocalyptic condition of having its streets paved with gold! We daily crossed the Snake River on "Gieger's Bridge" when going into the town for investigation and information.

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)