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Category Archives: Roadhouses
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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Alaskan Roadhouses
This 284-page book by Alaskan author Helen Hegener, published by Northern Light Media in 2016, presents stories and photos of dozens of historic roadhouses found along Alaska’s roads and trails. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, Gold Rush History, News & Information, Roadhouse, Roadhouses, Transportation
Tagged Helen Hegener, Roadhouses, travel
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Alaskan Roadhouses
This 284-page book presents historic photos of dozens of individual roadhouses, along with the colorful histories are first-hand accounts of those who stayed at the roadhouses while traveling the early trails and roads of Alaska, including the Reverend Samuel Hall Young, Frank G. Carpenter, Judge James Wickersham, Leonhard Seppala, Col. Walter L. Goodwin, and Matilda Clark Buller, who opened a roadhouse near Nome in 1901, at the height of the Nome Gold Rush. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books, News & Information, Roadhouses
Tagged Alaskan Roadhouses, Col. Walter L. Goodwin, Fairbanks-McGrath Trail, Frank G. Carpenter, Helen Hegener, Jim Reardan, Judge James Wickersham, Lake Minchumina, Leonhard Seppala, Lone Star Roadhouse, Matilda Clark Buller, Nome, Sam O. White, Samuel Hall Young, Valdez-to-Fairbanks Trail
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Alaska Road Commission
The Commission did not favor use of these trails by trucks or automobiles, declaring in 1914 that it made “no pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel….” Continue reading
Roadhouse Registers
Travelers of the Trail • Seeking Shelter and A Warm Meal W. A. Dikeman and Charles Peterson reported by Iditarod Nugget as “First Mushers Over the Iditarod Trail: Taking 45 Days from Seward to Otter, they meet several others on the … Continue reading
Alaska Nellie
Nellie Neal Lawing, familiar to Alaskans as “Alaska Nellie,” lived a life much larger than most, even by Alaskan standards. She was a fisherman, a hunter, a trapper, a cook and a roadhouse keeper; she fed the crews building the Alaska Railroad, welcomed princes and presidents into her home, guided big game hunters and developed an impressive trophy collection of her own. She mushed a dog team, kept a pet bear cub, became famous for her strawberry pies, and saw a movie made about her adventures. She was one of a kind, an Alaskan original, and she lived life to the fullest. Continue reading
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