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Men gathered for a drink in the Road House Saloon, Bluff City, Alaska

from University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  See the Barkeep watching them like a hawk, "You boys gonna behave yourselves now", no claim jumpers present then. Wonder if any of the Three Lucky Swedes from Nome have dropped in, that could be Eric Lindblom holding the whiskey glass aloft - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome_Gold_Rush The floor boards are interesting, they must be more than a foot wide and milled from what would now be exceptionally large logs. "Just a little south-east of Nome..." Well, 55 miles. youtu.be/JSt0NEESrUA

• Merryjack said:

  A lovely picture of working men; looking edgy, suspicious of each other, as you would expect of gold-rush era miners. The dude in back even more so perhaps, as one of only two clean-shaven men in the room.

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  Merryjack Yes, and wearing a three piece suit and necktie.