Category: Eastern Interior Alaska
Interior Alaska from Big Delta to the Canadian Border
We are entering the final week of the campaign to fund the printing of my book, “Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska.” The campaign is in an excellent position – not...
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In the past two days our Kickstarter campaign has met and then greatly exceeded our funding goal! Thanks to an article in Thursday’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper, our Kickstarter campaign went from about $850...
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The Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of my new book, Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites,” just reached 50% funding after only one week. The campaign runs for another three...
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The Kickstarter project to fund a first printing of my new book, Interior Sketches III, More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites, is now live and accepting pledges. The book features 70 historic...
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I am planning to start a Kickstarter campaign in about two weeks (February 28) to raise funds for a first printing of Interior Sketches III – More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites. The...
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A portion of the Alaska Military Telephone Line along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian border The Alaska Highway, built in 1942, was not the only World War II-era construction project linking Alaska with...
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The small log cabin show n in the drawing is the last vestige of the Bureau of Land Management’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) camp at Tanancross. It is the camp’s wellhouse, built in the...
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This painting shows the Sullivan Roadhouse, which was about 278 miles from Valdez (86 miles from Fairbanks). John and Florence Sullivan (veterans of the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes) built a sod-roofed...
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This is a painting by Marge Gull depicting Beal’s Cache, at approximately 257 miles on the old Valdez-Fairbanks Trail (about 108 miles from Fairbanks). It was located south of Big Delta near Donnelly Dome....
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The Timber pumping station just north of Delta Junction in 2014 The Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline was a 624-mile long, 8-inch diameter line that carried fuel from Haines in Southeast Alaska to Eastern Interior Alaska military...
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