Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...

The city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden spike at a Christie’s Auction House auction in New York City.

Harding drove a golden spike into ... 1923.Since then, the spike has remained out of the public eye, except for a brief display during the 1967 centennial of the U.S. purchase of Alaska from ...