May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "The most spectacular scene on the Trail of '98. Yukoners standing the acid test of the wilderness ascending the summit of bleak, forbidding Chilkoot Pass,...
On verso: "Barren plateau north of Slatepile Mt., scene of our all night retreat from the mosquitoes (July 31); Gates to the Arctic in center background"
Photo of, left to right, Private Fred Wildon Fickett, Lieutenant Henry T. Allen and Sergeant Cady Robertson, members of the Copper and Tanana Rivers Expedition. Photo taken in Saint Michael, a village on St. Michael Island, Alaska. Annotations on...
Title from caption. Photograph of an unusual rock formation on the edge of Hell's Half Acre. Narrative in photo album read: "Above: An unusual rock formation on the brink of Hell's Half Acre." Absolutely solid & stable."
Title from caption. Photograph of Cora Rivenburg standing next to a rock formation at Hell's Half Acre. Narrative in photo album read: "At right: Mrs. Rivenburg standing in front of one of the many unusual rock formations of Hell's Half Acre. ...