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No roads lead to Nome

By: Graham Simmons
Ace sled-dog instructor Christine Rowe takes a pupil for a trial run

Ace sled-dog instructor Christine Rowe takes a pupil for a trial run

Over 90% of everything that ever came to Nome is still there. While not all immigrants stayed, their belongings did, in a no-roads region where the cost of flying anything out is prohibitive, The result is a landscape of abandoned and rusting machinery, However, the atmosphere of the Gold Rush days, when Wyatt Earp’s Dexter Tavern was home to a motley group of colourful characters, still lives on.

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