Index to Back Issues 2019-2021

Volume 2, Number 1

The history of Chilkoot Pass and the ages-old trail which crossed it, not only in the Klondike gold rush era, but long before then as a vital trade route for the coastal Tlingit Indians, and later as an access route for the earliest gold prospectors, along with a large number of scientists, military expeditions, explorers and adventurers. Also in this issue is a look at the great Davidson Ditch, north of Fairbanks, and the historic meeting of the Tanana Chiefs in 1915. Esther Birdsall Darling was the author of classics such as ‘Baldy of Nome’ and ‘Navarre of the North,’ but was also a high society lady from a wealthy California olive-growing family. Ella Rhodes Higginson, Washington State’s first Poet Laureate, and author of ‘Alaska, The Great Country,’ published in 1908. This issue concludes with an article about the Bard of the Yukon, Robert Service, who penned the immortal lines of favorite northern ballads such as ‘The Spell of the Yukon,’ ‘The Shoorting of Dan McGrew,’ and ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee.’

Volume 2, Number 2

This issue features a wide range of Alaskan history, from some of the first photographs of Alaska, by the odd photographer Eadweard Muybridge, to the earliest settlers at Valdez, to an adventuresome lady musher who blazed trails where today’s Alaska Highway crosses the northern landscape. Also in this issue: Dr. Gary Stein shares letters penned in 1894 by physician James Taylor White, who wrote them to his mother while serving as surgeon aboard the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear. A contentious disagreement over the geographic boundaries between the southeastern part of the territory of Alaska and Canada; and the explorations of an Indian scout in Alaska: Luther Sage “Yellowstone” Kelly, by Dr. Thomas Eley.

Volume 2, Number 3

The May-June, 2020 issue of Alaskan History Magazine features articles on the 1935 government social experiment known as the Matanuska Colony Project, a unique historic look at the 1918 influenza epidemic from the Alaskan legislature, the pioneering packhorse trip of E. J. Glave and Jack Dalton, Stephen Birch and the Kennecott Copper Company, the wide-ranging travels of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, and the history of an unusual stone storehouse built in 1896 in Hyder, on the border of Alaska and Canada. Additional regular columns will make this another wonderful and wide-ranging exploration of Alaskan history!

Volume 2, Number 4

This July-August, 2020 issue of Alaskan History Magazine features the following articles: • Septima M. Collis, author of ‘A Woman’s Trip to Alaska,’ about her historically informative voyage through Alaska’s Inside Passage in 1890. • Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev, a Russian sea captain who mapped much of the Aleutians. • Pioneer Farmers of the Matanuska Valley, the hardy souls who blazed the way in agriculture for south central Alaska. • SS Dora, the doughty little sailing ship which carried mail, freight and passengers through some of Alaska’s roughest waters for close to half a century. • C. C. Georgeson, the Special Agent in charge of developing Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations in Sitka, Kodiak, Rampart, Copper Center and elsewhere. • Bicycles in Frontier Alaska, telling how two-wheeled adventurers rode in summer and winter, on local trips or journeying across the territory. Special Feature in this issue: Gov. George Parks’ 1928 Airplane Tour of Alaska.

Volume 2, Number 5

Articles in this issue include Wells Fargo & Co. in Alaska: Freighting in the Far North; McGreely’s Express: 1898 Private Post Between Dyea and Skaguay; Roadhouses of Alaska: A Good Meal and a Warm Place to Sleep; Ray Mala: Alaska’s Hollywood Star; The Alaska Club: A Seattle Social Club for Traveling Alaskans; James Wickersham’s A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 1724-1924; and the Special Feature: Ernest de Koven Leffingwell, Mapping the Arctic Coast.

Volume 2, Number 6

The Nov-Dec issue of Alaskan History Magazine is now available! Articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics, including Mottram Dulany Ball, a founding father of Alaska, and de facto governor of the territory; Alexander Hunter Murray, who built the stockaded fort and Hudson’s Bay trading post at Fort Yukon; The Episcopal Church, which brought medical services and other comforts to Iditarod and Flat City; The Silent City, Dick Willoughby’s startling news that he had discovered a mirage above the Muir Glacier; Nellie Cashman, the “Miner’s Angel,” who earned the respect of miners from Arizona to Alaska; Rand McNally’s 1922 guide on how to hire, drive, and care for an Alaskan dogteam; and The First American Musher in Alaska, by Thom “Swanny” Swan, about Robert Kennicott, the first known American to travel via dogteam in Alaska.

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