Chatanika Gold Camp as it looked in 1994 On a southeast-facing hill just north of Mile 27.5 of the Steese Highway sits Chatanika Gold Camp. The camp used to be the Fairbanks Exploration Company’s...
Our last day in the Lower 48. We spent part of the morning walking around the old Boise railroad depot. The structure, built in 1925 by the Union Pacific Railroad, has a modified Spanish...
We spent the day in the area around Marsing, Idaho, south of Nampa. A friend, Woody Woodworth, took us on a tour and we ended up at Leslie Gulch. Actually located in Oregon’s Malheur...
We stopped at Farewell Bend State Recreation Site along I-84 today. Travelers along the Oregon Trail bid farewell to the Snake River here and struck out cross-country towards the Columbia River. A lovely place....
Just a reminder. The launch party for my new book, “Interior Sketches II, more ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites,” will be held at Gulliver’s Books on Tuesday, April 5th from 5:00 to 7:00...
A view of Highway 26 in Central Oregon, headed towards John Day Fossil Beds country. What little we saw of it looked great. However, a flat tire put us behind schedule and we couldn’t...
Here are three more portraits from Jean Lester’s “Faces of ’84” series, done to commemorate 25 years of statehood. The series depicts 25 ordinary citizens of Fairbanks. Lois Meier taught school in Fairbanks...
On the way from Boise to Bend we took the Central Oregon Highway, US Route 20. We found a short abandoned section of the highway in the mountains east of Juntura. I thought it...
We are in Idaho for a few days. This is a view of Ann Morrison park on Sunday, March 20th. Lovely spring day.
