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Nome and the beach gold
1899
Nome, Alaska
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Gold was found in the sand of the beach itself, which belonged to no one, so anyone with a shovel could work it. Twenty thousand people arrived in a summer, and claim-jumping got so brazen that a federal judge was later jailed for running the fraud.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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