Category Archives: missionaries

Jan-Feb Alaskan History

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Helen Hegener

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Alaska History, Explorers, Geology, Gold Rush History, missionaries, News & Information, Transportation | Tagged 1901 Yukon River Ethnographic Questionnaire, Alfred A. Selden, Anvik, Bethel, Captain William R. Abercrombie, Christ Church, Copper River, Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, CR&NWRR Steamboats, Dall River, Dr. James Taylor White, Dr. Joseph Romig, Eagle, Eagle-Valdez Trail, Edward J. Knapp, Glacial Lake Ahtna, Holy Cross, Ikogmiut, Issac Jones, John Wesley Powell, John Wight Chapman, Joseph Jules Jetté, Joseph Raphael Crimont, Juneau, Koserefsky, Lt. John C. Cantwell, Nulato, Oscar Fish, Patsy Ann the Bull Terrier, Rampart, Russian Mission, St. Andrews, St. James, St. Michael, St. Peter Claver, steamboats, Tanana, The Dog Team Doctor, trails, U. S. Army, USS Nunivak, Valdez | Leave a comment

Hudson Stuck’s Sled Bag

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Helen Hegener

The Episcopalian minister Hudson Stuck, known as the Archdeacon of the Yukon, published five books about his travels and adventures in Alaska, including Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, published in 1914.

In that book a photograph appears, and a sled bag can be seen hanging from the handlebars. That sled bag is on permanent display at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. Continue reading →

Posted in Alaska History, Books, missionaries, photographs, Sled Dog History | Tagged Archdeacon of the Yukon, Athabascan, Gwich'in, Hudson Stuck, Project Gutenberg, sled bag, sled dogs, sledbag, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dogsled | Leave a comment

Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Helen Hegener

The Right Reverend Peter Trimble Rowe D.D. (1856-1942), appointed first Missionary Bishop of the Espicopal Church in Alaska in 1895, crossed the Chilkoot Trail and tended the medical needs of the Klondike gold miners and the Native peoples, eventually founding hospitals, churches, and boarding schools throughout the territory. Continue reading →