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The flow of miners from the Klondike to less crowded areas resulted
in a rush for gold on the Koyukuk and Kobuk Rivers. When gold was
discovered on the Koyukuk, Gordon Bettles opened a trading post
in a tiny boomtown the miners called Bergman. When it flooded,
he opened another post a short distance upstream and named it after
himself. Unfortunately, most of the Koyukuk gold was not accessible
using mining methods of the day, and it was nearly impossible to
extract enough to make it pay, particularly given the remote location
and the severe climate.
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