Category: Kantishna

Kantishna – Historic settlement in Moose Creek mining area on the far side of Denali National Park and Preserve.

The ebb and flow of mining at Kantishna is reflected in Eldorado Creek’s history

The Comstock Cabin on Eldorado Creek in 1994. This cabin was built  in the mid 1950s. Kantishna’s Eldorado Creek, as opposed to the 26 other Eldorado Creeks listed in the “Dictionary of Alaska Place...

Harry Karstens, a.k.a. the Seventymile Kid, and his Fairbanks connection

Harry Karstens, cabin at Pioneer Park in the 1990s Henry Peter (Harry) Karstens, a.k.a. the Seventymile Kid, was a legendary Alaskan outdoorsman. He is remembered as co-leader of the first successful ascent of Denali...

Kantishna’s Fannie Quigley, larger-than-life frontier woman

Quigley cabin as it looked in the 1990s Fannie Quigley was a larger-than-life Alaskan whose story has probably been embellished over the years. A 1990 Alaska Magazine article related that Fannie “was quick on...

Kantishna’s Busia cabin exudes Alaskan ambiance

  Nestled at the base of tundra-covered mountains in Kantishna sits the small log cabin pictured in the accompanying drawing. Built by Johnny Busia (pronounced boo-shay)in the early 1900s, the cabin, with its moose...