I , Nomc-The Famous City With Romantic Past
Eighty miles west of ,Golpvin lie*
the City pf Nome. She rests peace
fully on the beach and looks south
across the Bering Sea. The physical
aspects of Nome are the most un
assuming and ordinary in all the
world.
Nome Is like a woman who had
gained great notoriety and carried it
easily on her shoulders. Nome re
flects on the glory that was hers
and she does it with dignity. In her
formative years she was both
naughty and generous at the same
time. She did not care what her
sister cities thought of her .She
grew fat and sassy on the riches her
beaches afforded her.
The Great Rush
In 1902 someone stumbled on to
a hunk of yellow metal there. That
started the spark that mushroomed
the city almost overnight. The great
rush was on and it was one of the
most feverish of its kind in history.
The magnet was turned on and it
attracted all manner of men. This
motlev crowd assembled until the
swelling stopped at a bulging 30.
000. Sprinkled in this beehive were
some of history’s better known citi
zens. Robert W. Service probably
got a lifetime of poetry material
in a short space of time. Jack Lon
don and Rex Beach got private gold
mines of material to draw from for
their books. And then there was Tex
Richard, tough, confident of his
own prowess in the manly art of self
defense. He invited all comers to a
match and if any one of them de
feated him he would shell out $100.
One day a young Irishman, big and
unknown, challenged him. Tex was
soundly thrashed and had to shell
out the cool 100. He later became
one of the best known fight man
agers in the world of pugilism.
Vast Riches
I In the meantime the men moiled
for gold. There was no denying it.
Many were vastly successful. The
accumulated wealth was shipped
out by the millions of dollars worth
to Seattle. At times the supply
seemed inexhaustible. But, alas
like all good things in life, there
must come an end. The flow of gold
turned to a trickle by degrees. The
bedlam subsided to a whisper. The
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Famous Past
With time, a great brawl and the
bazaar events that went with it,
have a peculiar habit of turning
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Into a romantic past, no less.
Nome of today has that priceless
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Citizens of Nome have come to
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