Shortly after, the golden spike was returned to Mears, and Harding began the long trip back to Washington. He suffered a fatal heart attack and died in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 1923.

Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of the Alaska Railroad, which connected ...

In 2002, and then every year since 2014, Lee and Leland Wong, the great-grandson of a railroad laborer, have hosted a flash mob of sorts to re-create the tableau at Golden Spike National Historical ...

0.33% copper, 0.04 g/t gold over 11.15 m (hole GR-24-003, 69.85m to 81.0 m) – Including, 1.29% copper, 0.19 g/t gold over 1.50 m (69.85m to 71.35m) – and 1.37% copper, 0.02 g/t gold over 0.50 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in Alaska for the first time after entities combined to ...

USA Baseball announced its Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List on Feb. 7, giving fans something to chew on as they await Division I college baseball’s Opening Day this Friday, Feb. 14. The watch ...

OGDEN — During its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Weber County Commission approved a number of agreements for events to be held at the Golden Spike Event Center, including the Intermountain ...

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in Alaska for the first time after entities combined to ...