On February 4, 1898, Lindeberg left the port of Alta on the ship SS Manitoba, heading for New York City.

[4] On the Seward Peninsula at the Bering Strait he met the Swedish immigrants Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson.

In 1899, Lindeberg joined in the development of Moonlight Springs which was founded by James M. Davidson (1853-1928) to supply water to the City of Nome.

William W. Morrow, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, subsequently reversed Noyes' rulings, and ordered the gold mines restored to their rightful owners.

After Noyes left Nome in disgrace, Lindeberg joined a group of masked vigilantes to seize their properties back from the claim jumpers.

The claim-jumping incident was the basis for Rex Beach's best-selling novel The Spoilers (1906), which was made into a stage play and five times into movies.

Seppala later became a renowned musher, a hero of the 1925 serum run to Nome, and the foremost breeder of Siberian Husky of his time.