Alaskan History Magazine's Vol. 4, No. 3
Contributed by Helen Hegener
Alaskan History Magazine's Vol. 4, No. 3 includes articles on the history of the Willow Creek Mining District by pioneer geologist Stephen R. Capps; early explorer Addison Powell’s search for the lost gold claims of the mysterious Capt. I. N. West; a study of some Alaskan birds by ornithologist Charles Keeler, with paintings by the noted artist Louis A. Fuentes; Alberta Daisy Schenck, an Iñupiat woman from Nome who—as a teenager—proved to be an early warrior for civil rights when she sat in a ‘whites only’ section a decade before Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama; and E. E. Caine, captain and owner of the Pacific Clipper Steamship Company wooden steamship, SANTA ANA, which brought the first permanent settlers to Seward in 1903, and who became a pioneer of commercial marine transportation between the contiguous United States and Alaska. 64 pages, 6” x 9” format, B/W interior, $12.00 postage paid. alaskanhistorymagazine.com