Did you know the "Three Lucky Swedes, " Jafet Lindberg, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, discovered gold at Anvil Creek (near Nome) in 1898? Thousands poured into Nome shortly thereafter, as soon as steamships from Seattle and San Francisco could reach Nome through the ice.

Sven & Ole got a pilot to fly them to hunt moose, and they bagged six. As they started loading the plane for the return trip, the pilot said the plane could take only four moose. The two lads objected strongly -- "Last year we had six and the pilot let us put them all on board; he had the same plane as yours." Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded. However, even on full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down a few moments after take-off. Climbing out of the wreck Sven asked Ole , "Any idea where we are?" "Yaaah I tink we's pretty close to where we crashed last year."