The Eklutna Hydroelectric Project has used the energy of melting glaciers to provide electricity for the Anchorage-Palmer region for almost a century, but decades before the current well-known power plant, Anchorage businessman Frank I. Reed harnessed the power of the Eklutna River by constructing a dam and power plant several miles downriver from Eklutna Lake.

A chapter from the book, The Hope ’91 Sled Dog Race: From Nome, Alaskato Anadyr, Russia, by Helen Hegener, which focuses on the unique Chukotka dogs, a stout, hardy, bright-eyed and prick-eared type of dog, used for herding, hunting, packing, and pulling sledges over long distances.

A 1921 Cookbook titled “A Collection of Choice Recipes” was compiled by the Anchorage Woman’s Club, which was founded in 1915 by Jane Mears, wife of the man in charge of building the Alaska Railroad. Mrs. Mears and 35 other women used the railroad’s surplus building materials to construct the first schoolhouse in Anchorage. 

The Eagle City Tribune was a weekly newspaper published during the Klondike Gold Rush in Eagle City, Alaska, was started by surveyor Charles Carruthers in 1898. As it turns out, Carruthers was somewhat of a scoundrel and the miners held a meeting….

Frank B. Camp was a soldier-poet who penned the lines of the popular ballad ‘My Hitch in Hell’ in 1917, for his book, American Soldier Ballads.In 1921 he wrote a book of Alaskan poetry, Alaska Nuggets, and four of his poems are shared in this issue.

In the spring of 1935 the federal government transported 200 midwestern families to Alaska as part of F.D.R.’s New Deal social experiment, the Matanuska Colony Project. This article focuses on how and why the families were selected and transported to Alaska.