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Bigger John "B. J." Bower

The Tillecum Mining Co. on Cleary Creek

The Tanana Gold Fields

Circle Hot Springs Lodge, 1944-1945.

Cleary Creek, Alaska

Discovery, Cleary Creek

All Cleary Creek, Alaska

"1/2 Ton of Gold Dust, 12/23/1910."

Ruby, Alaska, Oct. 1911