Old Alaska: Events of the 1900s

Here are just some of the fascinating stories about Alaska in the 1900s collected by Jim Rearden, one of the state’s premier writers: • Rex repaid a lifelong debt when a bear attacked his master. • What is it like to have your 60-foot-long boat sink under you in the Bering Sea? • Queenie, a half-wolf dog, was the leader of latter-day Mountain Man Frank Glaser’s wolf-dog team. Why was she special? • Why was there a rush to buy padlocks and keys in Interior Alaska? • Do dogs go to heaven? • Why was a gun mounted on a small plane on Kodiak Island? • How did Fairbanksons heat their homes before the commercial production of coal in the Interior? • How gold was discovered at Fairbanks by a determined foreign-born prospector. • Learn a secret way of raising potatoes in Alaska from the experience of a sourdough. • How do you count salmon in a silty river?