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Gold Rush Continues Amid Hoax Claims at Fishwheel
Alaska prospectors rush to a Yukon River boomtown where more than 300 claims line a 13 mile stretch. Veteran skeptics call the new strike a hoax while pilots and officials warn against travel as nuggets reportedly planted fuel doubt.
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Alaska
Yukon River
Chronicle-Telegram
Ira
Obie
Thurs
Charles Halleck
United Air Motive
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Juneau
Territorial Department of Mines
Art Glover
Jim Donovan
Ted Rasmussen
Yukon
Rasmussen