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Category Archives: Alaska History
Alaska and the Klondike
Alaska & the Klondike, Early Writings and Historic Photographs, compiled and edited by Helen Hegener, is an anthology of selected writings by early explorers and travelers in Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. Charting an unknown country, exploring a … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, Explorers, Gold Rush History, Kindle eBooks, Memoirs, News & Information, photographs, Sled Dog History, Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged Arthur Treadwell Walden, Denali, Ernest Ingersoll, Frederick Schwatka, Hudson Stuck, Josiah Spurr, Klondike, May Kellogg Sullivan, Robert Service, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dogsled, The Spell of the Yukon
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Salmon Canneries
From Alaskan History Magazine, Volume 5, Number 2 In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, salmon are a keystone species, playing a critical role in maintaining the structure of the ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Alaskan History Magazine, fishing, News & Information, Uncategorized, Western History
Tagged Alaska Packers Association, canneries, cannery, commercial fishing, Emard Cannery, fisheries, Karluk, Kodiak, salmon, salmon labels, Star of Iceland, Waterfall Cannery
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The Iditarod Trail
The newest book published by Northern Light Media is a complete history of the Iditarod Trail, from long before its founding as a route to the Innoko-Iditarod gold fields, to its official designation as a dogteam mail trail from Seward to Nome, to decades of becoming overgrown and unusable, to its resurrection as a race route and the northernmost Congressionally designated National Historic Trail! Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, Gold Rush History, Iditarod, News & Information, Sled Dog History, Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged Alaska, All Alaska Sweepstakes, Anchorage Mushing District, Col. Walter L. Goodwin, Crow Pass Classic, Helen Hegener, Iditarod, Iditarod Trail, Iron Dog, James Lennox McPherson, Joe Redington, Jr. Iditarod, Kuskokwim Reconnaisance, mushing, mushing history, National Historic Trail, National Trail System, Nome, Northern Light Media, sled dog race, sled dogs
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AHM Collection III – 2025
Alaskan History Magazine Collection III All of the articles published in the magazine in 2025 All six issues published in 2025 are collected into this book, and every article, photograph and image appears just as they ran in the magazine. … Continue reading
True to the Trail
In 1898 Englishman Arthur Dallimore joined the Klondike Gold Rush. He tried his hand at a claim near Dawson City, then in 1902, hearing of a new strike, he traveled down the Yukon River to Alaska. Dallimore prospected on Preacher … Continue reading
True to the Trail
The next book scheduled for publication by Northern Light Media is True to the Trail: A Great-Granddaughter’s Alaskan Quest a Century On, a compilation of the journals and photographs of Englishman Arthur Dallimore, who joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, then traveled down the Yukon River to try his hand at prospects in Alaska, staying in the North for a dozen years, finally building a roadhouse northwest of Fairbanks. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, Gold Rush History, Memoirs, News & Information, Roadhouse, Roadhouses
Tagged Alaska, Anne Verdonk, Anne Waight, Arthur Dallimore, Arthur H. Dallimore, Bill Schneider, Denali, hiking, history, Klondike gold rush, Ohio Creek Roadhouse, Rampart, Tanana, travel, True to the Trail, William Schneider
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Roadhouses
Kiniry described half a dozen roadhouses and interviewed Alaskan roadhouse owners Mary Knight, of Tolovana Roadhouse; Annie Hopper, of the Rapids Roadhouse; and me–Helen Hegener-author of the book, Alaskan Roadhouses. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Gold Rush History, News & Information, Roadhouse, Roadhouses, Transportation, Western History
Tagged Alaska, Alaskan Roadhouses, Annie Hopper, Black Rapids Roadhouse, Helen Hegener, history, Laura Kiniry, Mary Knight, Northern Light Media, Rika's Roadhouse, roadhouse, Roadhouses, Talkeetna Roadhouse, Tolovana Roadhouse, travel
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Alaskan History Vol. 4, No. 1
The first new issue of the revised Alaskan History Magazine will offer an assortment of articles on the history of the state, from the history of Tanana to The Knik News and pioneer photographer P. S. Hunt, to an article about a woman who came to Alaska seeking information about her great-grandfather and wrote a book about it, some of which is excerpted in Searching for the Ohio Roadhouse. Other articles include an in-depth looks at the final days of Will Rogers and Wiley Post as they left Seattle and toured Alaska, and the history of the 72-mile Alaska Central Railroad, which was a forerunner of the current Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. 64 pages, 6” x 9” format, B/W interior, postage paid. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Alaska Railroad, Alaskan History Magazine, News & Information, photographs, Roadhouse, Roadhouses, Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged Alaska, Alaska Railroad, Arthur H. Dallimore, Helen Hegener, history, Knik, Northern Light Media, Ohio Creek Roadhouse, Roadhouses, Tanana, travel, Wiley Post, Will Rogers
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The Tender Life
In The Tender Life, writer Anne Winters tells stories from her 20 years of working and living aboard two classic wooden boats with her husband Ron as they worked the Alaska fisheries from south of Ketchikan to way north of Nome. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Book Reviews, Books, fishing, Memoirs, News & Information
Tagged Anne Winters, commercial fishing, fishing, Memoirs, Northern Light Media
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Sled Dogs in America
The important place of sled dogs in American history as portrayed by the sled dog paintings of Veryl Goodnight is the subject of this new book from Northern Light Media: Sled Dogs in America: The Art of Veryl Goodnight, by Veryl Goodnight and Helen Hegener. The historically accurate paintings by the award-winning Colorado artist have elevated the history of sled dogs to an exhibit at the prestigious Smithsonian-associated Western Spirit Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, Gold Rush History, Iditarod, News & Information, Sled Dog History, Sled Dog Races, Transportation
Tagged Alaska, Balto, Helen Hegener, Iditarod Trail, mushing, mushing history, Nome, Northern Light Media, sled dog race, sled dogs, travel, Veryl Goodnight, writing
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