Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Frederick James Currier was on his way from Wisconsin to Oregon in 1894 when he paused to go sightseeing in Victoria, British ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Gold Rush season 16 follows the mining operations in the Yukon region of Canada, specifically around the Klondike area.

The Koyukuk River doesn’t loom large in gold rush era histories of Alaska, though not for lack of effort. As would-be prospectors flooded into Alaska and the Yukon following the 1896 Klondike gold ...

The California Gold Rush is well known and much studied but the Alaskan Gold Rush is far less talked about. In his new book The Floor of Heaven, bestselling author Howard Blum tells the story of the ...

An airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets “as big as peas” sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 ...