As we learn from "The Biggest Damned Hat," a newly published collection of stories about Alaska's pioneering lawyers ... rush when they struck gold on Anvil Creek in 1898 in a place where courts ...

In 1898 gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome ... A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two ...