Nicholas (Nick) and Evinda Tweet were of Scandinavian origin, their parents being immigrants from Norway, and both grew up in rural Minnesota. Tweet and Sons operated the only floating bucketline stacker dredge in North America. Nicholas was 95 at the time of his death. Nicholas and Evinda worked their way through several placer gold mining camps, tried their hand at graphite mining, operated two bucketline stacker gold dredges, provided musical entertainment to the mining communities in which they lived and worked, interacted with North American (Inupiat) and Chuckchi Eskimos from their home in Teller, witnessed and participated in the dawn of the air age, and, finally, saw Alaska Statehood before their passing at Taylor in the Kougarok district. Tweet and Sons, has operated placer gold mines on the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska for 110 years. In marriage, they formed a team that created a remarkably stable, family owned, placer gold mining firm that continues to this day. It is difficult to name any couple in Alaska mining history that has had more longevity and perseverance than Nicholas B. Nicholas and Evinda Tweet at their home in Teller, Alaska, circa 1919.
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