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(1) “The Americanization of Sitka,” by T. H. Watkins;

(2) “ Prospectors, Profits & Prejudice” (Juneau), by Ted C. Hinckley

(3) “Rush To The Yukon!”

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GENEALOGY INDEX: SEE MASSIVE INDEX BELOW.

ALASKA: SITKA, JUNEAU, YUKON

(1) “The Americanization of Sitka,” by T. H. Watkins;

(2) “ Prospectors, Profits & Prejudice” (Juneau), by Ted C. Hinckley

(3) “Rush To The Yukon!”

Folks, as many of you know, I sit on old floors, in attics and in basements of old bookstores looking for rarely found and seldom read stories of the American West.

 Here are three stories, (1) “The Americanization of Sitka,” by T. H. Watkins; (2) “ Prospectors, Profits & Prejudice” (Juneau), by Ted C. Hinckley; (3) “Rush To The Yukon!” by William Branson.

(1) (Sitka History) “The Americanization of Sitka.” Sitka - Outpost of the Russian Empire for sixty-three years, became an American Frontier Town in 1867. The story of the transition is one of the least known in the history of the settlement of the west, and at the same time one of the most pitiable, for the story of the American settlement of Sitka is the story of a failure.

(2) (Juneau History) “Prospectors, Profits & Prejudice.” A story of the mid 1880s crisis in Juneau, capital city of Alaska, involving the Alaska Mill and Mining Company’s Chinese employees and the unemployed miners.

(3) (Yukon History) “Rush To The Yukon” This 15 page portfolio, containing 22 black and white photos and text, is described by the author as the work of photographers who were among “People of ever conceivable profession and skill and trade made their way north…” and was “gathered to trace the difficult journey across the Chilkoot and White passes to Dawson.”

AN UNBELIEVABLE CHRONICLE OF EARLY ALASKA

Please read this. There were many a western story published – the common ones about cowboy and Indians are listed on Ebay every day but the rarer ones about the outlaws of the old west like this one are seldom found. Collectors treasure them and their price guide value rises every day. They are hard to find. I hunt them out cause really the better, untold and rarer stories were published in the rest.

Here’s one of ‘em.

 

Following my retirement, I have dedicated my remaining hours to indexing the Genealogy of our western pioneers. During my research, I discovered that thousands of our kinfolk lay unfound and unrecognized on some book dealer’s shelf gathering dust. Because Old Western History and Memorabilia was printed before computer indexing, I index every item I sell.

This complete index will be bound and included in this offering at no additional cost.

Humbly, I am trying to keep our history alive

I hope you appreciate the effort.


THE AMERICANIZATION OF SITKA, by T. H. Watkins

PROSPECTORS, PROFITS & PREJUDICE, by Ted C. Hinckley

RUSH TO THE YUKON, by William Bronson

Folks, sooner or later - Genealogists are going to realize that their family kinfolks are laying on some dealer's dusty shelves. If I can contribute to finding one little name or photo of that long lost ancestor you have been waiting to find, it's worth all the time I spend. As a tribute to the honor of our American Indians, my indexed listings will include all Indian names mentioned in the story from this time on

ANCESTORS INDEXED HEREIN, CIRCA: 1860’s – 1900

ANCESTOR’S LOCATION: ALASKA, CANADA

GENEALOGY NAMES INDEXED w * INDICATING PICTURE:

ATKINS, Barton, U. S. Marshal

BARANOF, Alexander, founder of Sitka

BRADY, John G., Commissioner

BRANSON, William, Author

BROOKS, Alfred H., Alaskan Geologist

CARMACK, George

CARMACK, Kate, wife of George Carmack

CHINA JOE, Baker

CLEVELAND, Grover, President

DAVIS, Jefferson C., Major General

DODGE, William S. Collector of Customs, Mayor of Sitka

ERUSSARD, Pierre, (French Pete)

FREEBORN, James, President of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

FRY, E. M., Director of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

FRY, J. D., Director of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

FULLER, N. A., Assistant to John Tredwell

HARRIS, Richard T., Prospector

HILL, H. L., Director of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

HINCKLEY, Ted C., Author

JUNEAU, Joseph, Prospector

LONDON, Jack, Writer

MAKSOUTOFF, Prince Dimitri, Chief Manager of Russian-American Fur Company

McKENNA, John, Deputy U. S. Marshal

MUIR, John, Explorer

MURPHY, Miss, Schoolteacher

MURPHY, Thomas G., Editor of the “Alaska Times”

MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard, Photographer

NICHOLS, H. E., Lieutenant Commander

PESTCHOUROFF, Alexei, Commissioner of the Tsar

PILZ, George

RAGAN, Barney O., Editor of the “Sitka Times”

ROUSSEAU, Lovell H., United States Commissioner

SANDMEYER, Elmer C., Writer

SHINN, H. H., Director of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

SIMPSON, Sir George, of Hudson Bay Company

SKOOKUM JIM, brother-in-law of George Carmack

SMITH, Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” *

SQUIRE, Watson C., Washington Territorial Governor

SWINEFORD, Alfred P., Governor

TAGISH CHARLIE, brother-in-law of George Carmack

TEICHMANN, Emil, Agent for a London trading company

Treadwell, John, Superintendent and Organizer of Alaska Mill and Mining Company

WATKINS, T. H. Author

WHYMPER, Frederick, Englishman, Artist

WILLIAMS, James

PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS w * INDICATING PICTURE:

Picture 1: Sitka from the anchorage in the Western Harbor. *

Picture 2: Four representatives from Indian Town. *

Picture 3: St. Michael’s the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Sitka. *

Picture 4: Russian building which served as headquarters for offices of the United States Customs Collector. *

Picture 5: Shipping at Sitka. *

Picture 6: Sitka In 1865, watercolor by Frederick W. Whymper. *

Picture 7: The placid Gastineau Channel extends along Juneau’s shore, 1880s. *

Picture 8: The Alaska Mill and Mining Company with Juneau in the distance. *

Picture 9: Machinery of the Alaska Mill and Mining Company. *

Picture 10: The U. S. S. Pinta anchored at Sitka. *

Picture 11: Gold fever raged in Seattle; double page photograph of crowd waiting for passage to the Yukon in summer of 1897. *

Picture 12: Skagway viewed from towering mount Dewey. *

Picture 13: Map showing Sitka, Juneau and the Yukon. *

Picture 14: Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith in Skagway. *

Picture 15: Skagway on May 20, 1898. *

Picture 16: Chilkoot Pass in spring of 1898. *

Picture 17: At the top of Chilkoot Pass, Canadian Mounties and custom officers checked the immigrants and collected duty on supplies. *

Picture 18: Outfits cached at the top of Chilkoot Pass. *

Picture 19: White Pass Summit was not so steep as the Chilkoot, but in summer the trail beyond was a quagmire. *

Picture 20: The toll road to White Pass was the “rich man’s” route. *

Picture 21: Pack animals were cared for only so long as they could earn more carrying freight than it cost for hay to keep them. *

Picture 22: Once over the passes the gold seekers built boats to carry them the remaining 5030 miles. *

Picture 23: Klondikers carried tools to build a boat but few had ever built one. *

Picture 24: The most treacherous stretch of the route was Miles Canyon. *

Picture 25: Scows caught in an ice jam in Lake Marsh. *

Picture 26: Dawson, the most law-abiding frontier boom town in the history of the continent. *

Picture 27: Eldorado 26, the twenty-sixth claim below Discovery claim on Eldorado Creek. *

Picture 28 and 29: Pictures titled “Girl Wanted” and “A Group of Hard Workers” sold by Dawson Photographers. *

Picture 30: In Dawson a dog-drawn pumper races to a small fire as half the town watches. *

Picture 31: Crewmen pole a small paddlewheeler steamer past dangerous rocks in Miles Canyon. *

Picture 32: White Pass and Yukon Railway, completed July 1900. *

Picture 33: Dawson in its heyday beneath the northern lights. *

PLACES AND THINGS PROMINENTLY MENTIONED w * INDICATING PICTURE:

Alaska Mill and Mining Company, Juneau, Alaska *

“Alaska Times,” in Sitka

Anti Chinese Movement in California,” by Elmer C. Sandmeyer

Auk Village

Bering Sea

Blue Canyon on White Pass Trail *

British Columbia Cassiar Gold Fields

Canada’s Fraser River

Canadian Mounties

“Charlie,” Schooner

Chilkoot Pass *

Chinese Miners

Dawson *

Deer Creek (Thron Diuk), Klondike

Dix Bow

Douglas Island

Dyea, Alaska

Eldorado 26, Mining Claim *

Fliptown, Alaska

Fort Cudahy

Forty Mile, Canadian Mining Camp

Gastineau Channel

Harrisburg, Alaska

Hudson’s Bay Company

Indian Town, near Sitka

“John L. Stephens,” U. S. Steamer

Juneau, Alaska, Capitol of Alaska *

Klondike Annies” *

Lake Bennett

Lake Linderman

Lake Marsh *

Lynn Canal

Miles Canyon *

Mount Dewey

“Nellie Martin,” Schooner

Nome, Alaska

Northwest Trading Company

Paradise Alley *

Paris Lode on Douglas Island

Pilzburg, Alaska

Pioneer Association of Sitka

Rabbit Creek (Bonanza Creek)

Resurrection Church (for Indians) in Sitka *

Rock Springs, Wyoming

Rockwell, Alaska

Russian-American Fur Company

Seattle, Washington

Silver Bow

Sitka “Alaskan”

Sitka Harbor

Sitka, Alaska, Capitol City of Russian Alaska *

Skagway, Alaska *

St. Michael’s, Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Sitka *

Stewart Mine near Sitka

Stikine River

Tacoma, Washington

Taku Village

“The Sitka Times”

“U. S. S. Jamestown”

“U. S. S. Pinta” *

United States Army

United States Customs Collector Offices in Sitka *

Washington, D. C.

White Horse

White Pass and Yukon Railway *

White Pass Summit *

Wrangell

Yukon River

THREE ALASKA FRONTIER STORIES

THE REAL WESTERN FRONTIER

ALASKA FRONTIER MEMORABILIA IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING

While others clip ads from magazines, I save history. It’s a shame that our past is being lost. It’s as simple as that.

 What a story, Rare Story!!! Great Pictures. You will love it as it was published in this old complete western magazine printed on heavy slick paper many years ago.

As clearly stated in my description, this is featured story in a rarely found and seldom read unusual and complete western magazine. I don't give out name of publication or date because I have caught competitors copying my index and work and trying to sell it as theirs. I hope you understand.

 

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