YUKON-CHARLEY RIVERS The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska

COVER

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Cover (clockwise from top right):
Bull Gear on the Coal Creek Dredge, Douglas Beckstead, 2003.
Fireweed at Coal Creek, Douglas Beckstead, 2001.
Coal Creek Dredge, Douglas Beckstead, 2001.
Gold in Dredge Riffles, photo courtesy of Dale and Karen Patty, n.d.
Coal Creek Miners, August 1927, photo courtesy of Sherrie Harrison.

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I — BEFORE THE DREDGES

I. Early Mining on the Upper Yukon

II. Who Worked the Creeks?

PART II — DREDGING THE CREEKS

III. What is a Dredge

IV. Coal Creek Operations

V. World War II and Its Impacts

VI. Recovering From the War

VII. A Changing of the Guard

VIII. A New Generation Takes Charge

APPENDICES

Appendix A. Claimants on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, 1900-1951

Appendix B. Gold Placers, Inc. — Tabulation of Annual Reports, 1936-1960

Appendix C. Alluvial Golds, Inc. — Tabulation of Annual Reports, 1936-1960

Appendix D. Cummulative Production, 1936-1962

Appendix E. Employee Roster, Gold Placers, Inc. and Alluvial Golds, Inc.

Appendix F. Who Worked When? Gold Placers, Inc. and Alluvial Golds, Inc. Annual Employee Tabulation, 1936-1960

Bibliography

Title Page: Assembling the Atlas Diesel Engine, Spring 1935, George Beck Collection, photo courtesy of Max Beck.