Inside this issue:
• CR&NWRR Steamboats on the Copper River – Between 1907 and 1911 the Copper River and Northwestern Railway operated a fleet of steamboats on the Copper and Chitina Rivers in support of railroad construction and mining operations at Kennicott.
• Along the Trail from Eagle to Valdez, 1901 – This 1901 report includes a discussion of the Copper River region, interesting notes and observations on the Native and non-Native residents and visitors.
• Glacial Lake Ahtna – During the last major glaciation the Copper River and its tributaries were dammed by glacial advances, and the lake that formed in the Copper River Basin was named glacial Lake Ahtna.
• Dr. Joseph Romig, The Dog Team Doctor – To the people he served in the southwestern Alaska region of the Kuskokwim delta, Dr. Joseph H. Romig was known as “Yung-Cha-wista,” person working for others, or “Remaker of People.”
• Patsy Ann the Bull Terrier – Deaf since birth, the friendly white bull terrier named Patsy Ann became Juneau’s official greeter in 1934, and is honored today with a bronze statue on the dock near her favorite spot.
• ‘‘Anything You Know Regarding the Natives:” Dr. James Taylor White’s 1901 Yukon River Ethnographic Questionnaire” • by Gary C. Stein – Dr. James Taylor White wrote to six missions along a 500-mile stretch of the Yukon River. All of these were Athabascan Indian missions with the exception of Russian Mission, which was Central Yup’ik Eskimo.
48 pages, full color, no advertising.
Jan-Feb 2021 Alaskan History Magazine
Inside this issue: • CR&NWRR Steamboats on the Copper River • Along the Trail from Eagle to Valdez, 1901 • Glacial Lake Ahtna • Dr. Joseph Romig, The Dog Team Doctor • Patsy Ann the Bull Terrier • ‘‘Anything You Know Regarding the Natives:” Dr. James Taylor White’s 1901 Yukon River Ethnographic Questionnaire” • by Gary C. Stein
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