Fevering for Gold Author:Douglas DeVries When Sven Olafsen reads an advertisement about gold in the sand of beaches in Nome, Alaska, he desires to go there and seek his fortune. When his sister Frieda asks to go to Nome as a housekeeper and nursemaid, Sven’s dream comes true. Mama reluctantly allows them to go. Share Sven’s adventures in the boom city of Nome in 1900 when an estim... more »ated 20,000 people arrived to extract gold from sand, and no prospector’s claim was safe from claim jumpers.« less