Ogden Pickett Thompson Ogden Pickett Thompson came to the Yukon in 1898 and spent years mining in the Thompson Creek area, a tributary that flows north into the South McQuesten River. He staked a discovery on Johnson Creek in 1914 and successfully mined there.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 461.))