Nagley’s Store in Talkeetna – legacy of a frontier merchant
Nagley’s Store in the 1970s when it was the B & K (Barrett & Kennedy) Trading Post Horace Nagley (1875-1966) was one of the first merchants to establish a store in the Susitna Basin....
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Talkeetna and the Alaska Commercial Company’s Susitna-Valdez Creek freighting gamble
Old freighter’s cabin at Talkeetna in 2005 Gold was discovered at Valdez Creek (near the headwaters of the Susitna River) in 1903. The first pack-horse and winter sled routes that supplied the mining...
Talkeetna winter sunset
April–and its still winter in Talkeetna, oh yes! This is a photo of the birch trees in front of our rental cabin (Susitna River Lodging) in Talkeetna. The cabins are on the east bank...
Log cabin post office is about the only building left along historic Valdez Creek
Valdez Creek post office in the 1990s The small log cabin shown in the drawing, built by miner Leburn Wickersham in the early 1900s, is one of the last buildings at the old mining...
