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May 14, 2021
Hello Friends,
Pre-ordering for the print magazine is in place! The July-August issue of Alaskan History Magazine will be mailed June 15 for delivery near July 1st. This issue has a new cover design, a few changes inside, and the following articles already in place:
• Alaska Nellie – Peerless Alaska Railroad Hostess - Alaska Nellie was one of the territory’s most colorful and beloved personalities, a larger-than-life adventuress whose exploits would easily fill a number of exciting books, beginning with her own autobiography.
• Jujiro Wada - The Samurai Musher - There are many strange and unusual stories in the annals of northern travel, but one of the most fascinating concerns an enigmatic Japanese explorer and adventurer named Jujiro Wada.
• USGS Topographer-in-Charge – R. Harvey Sargent - “Topographer-in-charge involved making surveys in the field, preparing them for publication, supervision of special maps in the office, and following them through reproduction.”
Click below to pre-order the July-Aug issue, sent postpaid via first class on June 15.
The May-June issue includes articles about Knik (emailed to this week’s paid subscribers), Alaskan Villlages in 1937, the Reverend Samuel Hall Young, Historic Alaskan Hot Springs, Hotel Holman / Blix’s Roadhouse, Trading Cards for Captain Cook’s Third Voyage, and 1923 Alaska Railroad’s Great Circle Tour Lantern Slides. Click below to order the May-June issue:
The March-April , 2021 articles include the history St. Michael, Malemute Joe Henderson, the Alaska Central Railroad, the Klondike in 1899; the story of murdered miners in the gold fields west of Talkeetna, Alaska’s first postal inspector, and vintage sled dog postcards.
A valuable research tool for historians is old obituaries, and this website gathers thousands of brief but often very informative obits from Alaska Magazine’s long-running End of the Trail feature into a searchable database:
National Park Service Archives:
Historical Documents eLibrary (Reports/Studies)
Another valuable tool for historians and other people!
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The End of the Trail site was exactly what I was looking for, but the link was inaccessible. It didn't tell me the link was dead, though, so I'm not sure what to say.