"Opening the large wooden door, he saw Sara staring right at him, and Kelly put his finger up to his lips, to be quiet. Smiling, Kelly spoke loudly, I got shot..."
Since the first gold rush of 1896 in the Bonanza Creek area of the Klondike, individuals and companies, big and small, have traveled to Alaska searching for gold, and this migration has not stopped even to this present day. All types of gold mining operations were put to the test, such as panning, hydraulic mining, sluice mining, and actually sometimes just digging into the dirt and rock with a shovel.
Another activity that has drawn many active seekers of wealth to the Alaskan Territory is the game hunter. Leather around the world has always been in large demand by almost all countries on every continent. Even before Russia sold Alaska to the United States, in 1867, uncontrolled hunting for almost anything that would produce fur or leather was hunted extensively by many countries.
The greater part of the Alaska Territory had little or no enforcement of the laws, sketchy at best, throughout the entire territory. There were local deputy sheriffs in some of the boroughs, like Wrangell, but their authority extended only to the outskirts of the borough, leaving the rest of the Alaska Territory to be used and abused by men and companies to get rich quick by whatever means.
