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Wild Goose Railroad
The Wild Goose Railroad was created by the Wild Goose Mining Company in Alaska. Charles D. Lane Charles D. Lane (November 15, 1840 - 1911) was a US millionaire mine owner, who is recognized as a founder of Nome, Alaska, Nome, Alaska. Lane was born in Palmyra, Missouri, Palmyra, Missouri November 15, 1840. His parents were Virginians of Scotti ... acted as the President of the Wild Goose Mining company, until his death in 1911. The Wild Goose Railroad ran from Nome to Lane's Landing, named after Charles D. Lane, at the town of Shelton, in a straight line about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Nome at the Kuzitrin River. In 1903, the Wild Goose Railroad was reorganized as the Nome Arctic Railway.{{Cite web, url=http://www.sewardpeninsula.com/s/Trains-of-the-Seward-Peninsula.pdf, title=Trains of the Seward Peninsula, last=McBride, first=sherri, date=Summer 1996, website=Nome Visitor Center, publisher=City of Nome References Defunct Alaska railroads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminus Of Wild Goose Railroad At Anvil Creek, Alaska, Ca 1901 (HEGG 348)
Terminus may refer to: * Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination * Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination Geography *Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United States ** Terminus (office complex), an office complex in Atlanta *Lagos Terminus railway station, the main railway station of Lagos, Nigeria Religion * Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers Art, entertainment, and media Books * ''Terminus'' (play), a 2007 play by Marl O'Rowe * "Terminus" (poem), written in 1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson * Terminus (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe * Terminus (planet), the home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' novels (1942–1993) *Terminus, a robot in the eponymous short story from '' Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem Film and TV * ''Terminus'' (1961 film), a film directed by John Schlesinger * ''Terminus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it also shares a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. It represents the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles D
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nome, Alaska
Nome (; ik, Sitŋasuaq, ) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of Alaska, United States. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 recorded in the 2020 census, up from 3,598 in 2010. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most-populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is headquartered in Nome. The city of Nome also claims to be home to the world's largest gold pan, although this claim has been disputed by the Canadian city of Quesnel, British Columbia. In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic raged among Alaska Natives in the Nome area. Fierce territory-wide blizzard conditions prevented the delivery of a life-saving diphtheria antitoxin serum by airplane from Anchorage. A relay of dog sled teams was organized to deliver the serum. Today, the Iditarod Dog Sled Race follows the same route they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuzitrin River
The Kuzitrin River (''Kurritqiun'' in Inupiaq) is a stream, long, on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at Kuzitrin Lake in the central region of the peninsula and flows west into the Imuruk Basin. The basin drains via the bay of Port Clarence to the Bering Sea. Kuzitrin tributaries include the Noxapaga, Kougarok, Kruzgamepa (Pilgrim), and Kugruk rivers. The river's name, from Inupiaq, was recorded in 1900 by the United States Geological Survey. The United States Board on Geographic Names officially adopted the name in 1950. There is one former village site on the lower Kuzitrin, at Mary's Igloo. The village is abandoned but is still used for subsistence activities by people from the nearby village of Teller. See also *List of rivers of Alaska This is a List of rivers in Alaska, which are at least fifth-order according to the Strahler method of stream classification, and an incomplete list of otherwise-notable rivers and streams. Alaska has m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nome Arctic Railway
The Nome Arctic Railway was the name of the reorganized Wild Goose Railroad The Wild Goose Railroad was created by the Wild Goose Mining Company in Alaska. Charles D. Lane Charles D. Lane (November 15, 1840 - 1911) was a US millionaire mine owner, who is recognized as a founder of Nome, Alaska, Nome, Alaska. Lane was bor .... The Railway was created in 1903, and ran for a four-month period from 1903 to 1905. In 1906 the railroad was bought out by the newly formed Seward Peninsula Railway. References Defunct Alaska railroads 1903 establishments in Alaska 1906 disestablishments in Alaska {{US-rail-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
