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Alaskan History Magazine, founded in 2019, features true stories of the history of the North, with photos and images illustrating every article, with quotes and excerpts from some of the best writing about Alaska and the Yukon to be found anywhere. From trailblazers, explorers, scientists, doctors, sea captains, mushers, missionaries, poets, artists, and everyday pioneers, the true stories they shared in letters, postcards, books, diaries, journals, newspaper articles and much more fill the pages of each issue of Alaskan History Magazine with an irrefutable authenticity.
The bimonthly magazine is once again available by subscription, beginning with the July-August, 2025 issue, which will feature Territorial Judge James Wickersham’s 1903 journey by dogteam from Circle to the new gold diggings at Fairbanks. During his travels across the broad northern land the Judge kept detailed diaries, explaining why in chapter five of his book, Old Yukon—Tales—Trails—Trials: “It was my practice to keep a dairy of my journeys on the Alaska trails, in the hope that the details of daily travel, trails, temperature, weather conditions, and lodgings may be of interest.”
Wickersham’s travels are certainly of interest today, for he gives a first-hand account of life on the northern frontier at an important time in Alaska’s past. Also in this issue will be the story of the National Natural Landscape, Lake George, at the base of Knik Glacier; a tale of journeying down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson City in a scow; another river journey on the Northwest Territories’ Rat River by none other than the Bard of the Yukon, Robert Service; the long legacy of dog team travel in the North; and the renowned “Cartographer from Hell,” a member of Capt. Edwin Glenn’s 1898 Alaska Exploring Expedition, William Yanert. A splendid collection of great reading about some fascinating history of the North!
A one-year, six-issue subscription is $40.00, a $72.00 value if issues are purchased separately. Current subscriptions will begin with the above-mentioned Volume 4, Number 4, (July/August, 2025). Convenient 6" x 9" format, 64 black-and-white pages per issue, no advertising, just history, postage paid. Issues will be mailed to arrive the first week of alternating months: Jan, March, May, July, Sept, and Nov.
Two new indexes give you an inside look at the wealth of content in past issues, and two options for back issue packages make it easy to select the three previous 2025 issues, and/or the entire collection of early magazines from 2019-2021! Check out both of the indexes at the Alaskan History Magazine website:
Other news from Northern Light Media:
• Lew Freedman, author of several Northern Light Media books, including Adventures on the Iditarod Trail, Alaska Fishing Tales, Northern Journey and more, is traveling in Alaska this month in part to finish researching his next book, Denali: The Peak and the Park, to be published by NLM this fall.
• Rod Perry, renowned Iditarod pioneer, raconteur and author of the two-volume classic Trailbreakers: Pioneering Alaska’s Iditarod, will be offering a selection of Northern Light Media books at his sales booth on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage this summer, including The History of Sled Dogs in North America, Alaskan Sled Dog Tales, and Sled Dogs in America: The Art of Veryl Goodnight.
• Anne Winters’ book, The Tender Life: 20 Years of Commercial Fish Tendering in Alaska, was reviewed in both the Anchorage Daily News and the Fairbanks News-Miner in May! Check out David James’ great review at the title link!
• Northern Light Media will publish True to the Trail: A Great-Granddaughter’s Alaskan Quest A Century On, by Anne Verdonk, in July! Information about the book at the title link.
• Talkeetna Historical Museum carries Northern Light Media’s Alaskan Roadhouses and The Alaska Railroad 1902-1923, check out this excellent museum the next time you’re in Talkeetna!
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