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Read the excerpt from "As Good as Gold."
When the news hit the Seattle press in July of 1897,
gold fever had spread to everyone, and old timers
stoked the flames with their stories of uncles who had
struck it rich back in the California days of '49. "But
California was dry and warm," Sam muttered as he
readjusted his pack and trudged on through the biting
snow of an Alaskan February. His brother Jake had
insisted that an early start would get them to a claim
just in time for the spring thaw of those golden creeks.
Gold had been discovered previously in Seattle.
Gold had been mined in North America before.
© Gold was far less valuable than oil at this time
Gold was more valuable in Alaska than California
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