During Alaska's early days as a state, lawyers wrote their own rules, ... who launched the rush when they struck gold on Anvil Creek in 1898 in a place where courts were nonexistent.

In 1898 gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, ... Alaska Steamship Co., ...