A recent book about a Gold Rush-era shipwreck at Eldred Rock speculates that as much as $17 million in gold stolen from it may lie near the shore of Chilkoot Inlet, between Mud Bay and Seduction Point.
“While the boxes may have long since rotted away, the gold is most likely still there, all 11,000 Troy ounces of it, waiting for some lucky skin diver to stumble upon it,” Anchorage historian Steven C. Levi wrote…