YUKON-CHARLEY RIVERS Yukon Frontiers Historic Resource Study of the Proposed Yukon-Charley National River

¹Kirk, Pioneer Life, p. 74; Dunham, "The Alaskan Goldfields", p. 415; and A Guide for Alaskan Miners, Settlers, and Tourists prepared for the Copper River Mining, Trading and Development Co., under the auspices of the Valdez Chamber of Commerce (Seattle: Trade Register Print, 1902), p. 65.

²Wickersham, Old Yukon, pp. 131-33; Interview with George Beck, 19 September 1976; Interview with Charlie Biederman, 12 February 1977; Interview with Horace Biederman, Jr., 18 September 1976; and Interview with Wyman Fritsch, 19 September 1976.

³Cantwell, Report of the Nunivak, pp. 162-64; Wickersham, Old Yukon, p. 133; and Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, p. 214.

⁴Wickersham, Old Yukon, p. 133.

⁵One mail sled is in the Eagle Museum, the other is owned by George Beck, interview with Charlie Biederman, 11 November 1976.

⁶Interview with Charlie Biederman, 30 June 1976 and 12-13 February 1977; Interview with Horace Biederman, Jr., 18 September 1976; and Interview with George Beck, 19 September 1976.

⁷Brooks, Blazing Alaska's Trails, pp. 403-05.

⁸Walden, A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, pp. 35-8; and Johns, "The Early Yukon", p. 158.

⁹Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, p. 42; Walden, A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, p. 33; Brooks, Blazing Alaska's Trails, p. 404; Cantwell, Report of the Nunivak, p. 159; and Adney, The Klondike Stampede, pp. 222-23.

¹⁰Cantwell, Report of the Nunivak, p. 164; Davis, "Recollections", p. 67; and Spurr, Through the Yukon, p. 173.

¹¹Michael E. Smith, Alaska's Historic Roadhouses, Office of Statewide Cultural Programs, History and Archeology Series No. 6 (Anchorage: Alaska Division of Parks, 1974), pp. 5-7.

¹²Wickersham, Old Yukon, pp. 141-43.

¹³Ibid., p. 142.

¹⁴Ibid., p. 143.

¹⁵Ibid., pp. 62-78.

¹⁶C. A. Bryant, "Another Man's Life", vol. 2, (1937) typescript in Alaska Historical Library, Juneau, Alaska, pp. B-M (insert); Spurr, Through the Yukon, pp. 169-74, 187; Walden, A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, p. 39; Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, p. 324; Cantwell, Report of the Nunivak, p. 156.

¹⁷Roald Amundsen, My Life As An Explorer (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., 1927), pp. 53-9; and Iris Warner "Herschel Island", The Alaska Journal 3 (1973): 130-42.

¹⁸Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6 December 1905, p. 1; Ibid., 7 December 1905, p. 1.

¹⁹The Alaska Weekly, 6 March 1931, p. 5.

²⁰M. J. Cooney, "Airmail not Yet Adequate for Interior", The Alaska Weekly, 12 June 1931, p. 5.

²¹Interview with Charlie Biederman, 30 June 1976.

²²Thompson to Johnson, 17 May 1939, and Election results, Records in Eagle City, Green File #3, 1937-39.

²³Brooks, Blazing Alaska's Trails, p. 423.

²⁴Report of August Fritsch on road work, 28 March 1908; report of August Fritsch on road work, 27 March 1909; report of Harry F. Rogers on road work, 12 May 1909; report of B. F. Cordell on road work, 31 March 1910, all in Records in Eagle, Alaska, Orange Files, 1904-19; and Eagle Precinct road report, 1908, in Records in Eagle, Alaska, Orange File #14, 1909.

²⁵Report of William Rucker on road work, 31 March 1909, Ibid.

²⁶Valdez Common Council to Mayor and Council of Eagle, 29 July 1904, Ibid.

²⁷Conditions in Alaska, Senate Report 282, pt. 2, 58th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, 1904), p. 123.

²⁸Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 19 September 1905, p. 1.

²⁹Colonel W. P. Richardson, "The U.S. Army in the North", The Alaska Weekly, 8 June 1923; Annual Report of the Governor of Alaska to Department of Interior (Washington, 1905); Brooks, Blazing Alaska's Trails, p. 426; and The Alaska Weekly, 13 December 1929, p. 7.

³⁰Richardson, "Colonel Dick Writes", The Alaska Weekly, 18 June 1923, p. 3; The Alaska Weekly, 9 November 1928; The Alaska Weekly, 9 November 1928, p. 3; and The Alaska Weekly, 22 October 1926, p. 3.

³¹Ibid., 13 December 1929, p. 7.

³²Reed to Brown, 26 April 1955, Records in Eagle, Alaska, Green File #31, 1955.

³³Report on the completion of the Fortymile Road, 21 October 1950, Records in Eagle, Alaska, Green File #22, 1950.