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1935

Post and Rogers

The news spread around the world with the speed of a lightning bolt. Two of America's most beloved citizens were dead. In the wilds of Alaska, the picture of their crumpled aircraft was a sad sight, indeed.

Will Rogers was…

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1936

Riverboats as Archaeology

You wouldn’t think the Yukon river-boat days are gone long enough to attract the attention of archeologists. Nevertheless, a British Columbia archaeologist, sponsored by the Institute of nautical archeology at Texas A & M University, is conducting a…

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1937

The Whitehorse Star in the 30s and 40s

Times were tough in the Yukon just before the outbreak of World War II. The territory had become a backwater, out of sight and out of mind, especially by the Federal Government. In 1937 the feds gleefully agreed to allow…

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1938

Sourdough Reunions

Sourdough Reunions have been going on for a long time. I remember attending one in Reno, Nevada in the seventies and meeting Alan Fraser, who had worked on the river boats in the twenties and thirties. He was a great…

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