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.

Harding hammered the golden spike into a bridge in Nenana now known as the Mears Memorial Bridge.The “ambitious” single-span trestle bridge over the Tanana River closed the Alaska Railroad’s ...

Youth competitors from around the country and beyond will descend upon Ogden’s Golden Spike Event Center this week for the ...

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 ...

ALCHE Gupiteo and JJ Macam took center stage as University of Santo Tomas staged a gutsy comeback to complete a sweet sweep ...