In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” put the town under siege 100 years ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter ... to get them to Seattle and then onto a ship for Seward, an ice-free port south of Anchorage.

A Bering Air commuter plane that went missing en route to Nome, Alaska, has been found crashed on sea ice, with all 10 people ...

and then onto a ship for Seward, Alaska, an ice-free port south of Anchorage, Alaska. In the meantime, enough for 30 people was found at an Anchorage hospital. It still had to get to Nome.

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere ... but it would take time to get them to Seattle and then onto a ship for Seward, an ice-free port south of Anchorage.