61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative...
Berle Mercer talks about Berle talks about growing up in Thedford, Nebraska and first coming to Alaska with the Army, growing up in Nebraska, and Claire, growing up in New York, meeting and having a double wedding with their twins,settling in the...
Charles Goodyear Hubbard II, astride his horse "Whitie", fords the Copper River followed by a pack train of three additional horses and two men. Verso: "Showing how rivers had to be crossed when Hubbard was finally in Copper River Valley and horses...
Cyanotype photograph of a man and a pack horse walking along a dirt road in Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army. The photographer is unidentified.
Cyanotype photograph of a tent camp in the snow on the Valdez Trail. A large tent has the following sign on its roof: "We are the boys from Decatur Illinois". Mules are corralled in front left of photo. Photo taken by Walter Curran Mendenhall...
Cyanotype photograph of an unidentified man feeding hay to mules at a tent camp on the Valdez Trail, while another man looks on. Deep snow surrounds the animals; a tent is visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet...
Cyanotype photograph of members of the 1898 U.S. Army Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, also known as Expedition No. 3, with their pack mules and a dog. One man holds a pair of snow shoes, another holds a gun. The photographer is unidentified. ...
Cyanotype photograph of members of the 1898 U.S. Army expedition posing for a photograph with their pack mules and dogs at Portage Bay (now Passage Canal). One man holds a pair of snow shoes, another cradles a gun. The man on the far left...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers packing on the trail through the canyon near Skagway, 1898."
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...