Prickly Rose and Northern Bluebell at Pioneer Park – 6-7-2015
I was walking though the woods at Pioneer Park today. Prickly Rose (Rosa acicularis) and Northern Bluebell (Mertensia paniculata) were in bloom–lovely flowers!
The growth and decline of Eagle’s historic churches
The first Christian missionaries in Eastern Interior Alaska did not follow the miners who began arriving toward the end of the 1800s. Rather, missionaries preceded the miners, following instead Hudson’s Bay Company as it...
Deadwood Creek mining camp near Central survives as family retreat
Deadwood Creek is a 20-mile-long northeasterly flowing stream in the Circle Mining District. It tumbles down out of the mountains before meandering across flats and emptying into Crooked Creek a few miles east of...
Venerable Central Roadhouse almost made it to 21st century
The Central Roadhouse as it looked in the mid 1980s In the summer of 1896, Josiah Spurr, Frank Schrader and Harold Goodrich floated the Yukon River, investigating mining areas for the U.S. Geological...
The East Fork Cabin at Denali National Park and Preserve – Adolf Murie’s base camp for pioneering wolf studies
The East Fork (Murie) cabin in the 1990s As early as 1922, rangers erected a tent near the confluence of the East Fork of the Toklat River and Coal Creek (43 miles from park...
“Interior Sketches II” Kickstarter campaign ends successfully!
This is just a thank you to everybody who supported my Kickstarter campaign, either through pledging or sharing the project with others. The funding campaign officially ended yesterday and we raised over $3000.00. That...
Final Weekend for “Interior Sketches II” Kickstarter project
Spritis are high as we go into this final weekend of our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for publishing my book, “Interior Sketches II, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites.” We have met...
Emil Usibelli and the early years of Usibelli Coal Mine
Bucyrus 20-B steam shovel at Usibelli Coal Mine in 2014 In 1907, at the age of 14, Emil Usibelli emigrated from Italy to the United States. Settling in Washington state, he worked a variety...
