St. Michael

Gateway to the Yukon and the Kuskokwim

From the March-April, 2021 issue of Alaskan History Magazine

Postcard with caption “General view of St. Michels, Alaska” Note the spelling, one of several variations. 

Treeless, windswept, boggy St. Michael Island, 8 miles wide and 36 miles long and separated from the mainland by the North Branch of Big St. Michael Canal, lies along the southern coast of …