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

¹Evelyn Berglund, Born on Snowshoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954).

³Ibid., p. 130.

⁴Ibid., p. 176.

⁵Ibid., pp. 122, 193.

⁶Ibid., pp. 98-102.

⁷Ibid. p. 209. Other Alaskan trappers have expressed similar contentment with their lifestyles: James A. Carroll, The First Ten Years in Alaska; Memoirs of a Fort Yukon Trapper, 1911-1922 (New York: Exposition Press, 1957); Erik Munsterhjelm, Fool's Gold: A Narrative of Prospecting and Trapping in Northern Canada (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957); Erick Munsterhjelm, The Wind and the Caribou: Hunting and Trapping in Northern Canada (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953); Jeanne Connolly Harbottle and Fern Grice Credeur, Woman in the Bush (Pelican Publish Co., 1966); and Chick Ferguson, Mink, Mary and Me: The Story of a Wilderness Trapline (New York: M. S. Mill Co., 1946).

⁸The best work on trapping in Alaska is Richard K. Nelson's Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Among the Alaskan Kutchin (Chicago: The University Chicago Press, 1973) also informative is The Manitoba Trappers' Guide (Manitoba Department of Renewable Resources and Transportation Services, 1976); more oriented to "lower forty-eight" trapping is S. Stanley Hawbaker's Trapping the North American Furbearers (Clearfield Pennsylvania: Kurtz Bros., 1974); and a historic source is Ned Dearborn's Trapping on the Farm, an extract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook of 1919, Facsimile Reproduction (Seattle: The Shorey Book Store, 1973).

⁹Manitoba Trappers' Guide, pp. 18-20; Hawbaker, Trapping Furbearers, pp. 216-21; and Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 213.

¹⁰Nelson, Hunter of the Northern Forest, pp. 218-19; and Hawbaker, Trapping Furbearers, pp. 178-83.

¹¹Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 166; and Graburn and Strong, Circumpolar Peoples, p. 102.

¹²Carroll, The First Ten Years in Alaska, p. 70.

¹³J. B. Marshall, "Evolution of Fur Trade", The Alaska Weekly, 7 December 1928, p. 6.

¹⁴Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 166.

¹⁵Redington to Gunnell, 24 October 1928, Folder on Fur Resources: Marten, Box 159, Record Group 22, NA.

¹⁶"Annual Report of Alaska Game Commission to Secretary of Interior", 1941, Box 6, RG 22, NA; The Alaska Weekly, 11 May 1928, p. 5.

¹⁷Carroll, The First Ten Years in Alaska, p. 70; "Annual Report of Alaska Game Commission to Secretary of Interior, 1941"; and The Alaska Weekly, 23 April 1926 to 27 September 1929, Seattle Fur Exchange prices for each month's auction.

¹⁸Ferguson, Mink, Mary and Me, p. 9.

¹⁹Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 167.

²⁰The Alaska Weekly, 25 January 1929, p. 2; The Alaska Weekly, 9 February 1929, p. 2; The Alaska Weekly, 9 August 1929; and The Alaska Weekly, 7 February 1930, p. 7.

²¹The Alaska Weekly, 25 January 1929, p. 2; and The Alaska Weekly, 22 March 1929, p. 2.

²²The Alaska Weekly, 7 February 1930, p. 7.

²³The Alaska Weekly, 3 October, 1930, p. 7; The Alaska Weekly, 24 July 193, p. 6; The Alaska Weekly, 25 December 193, p. 8; The Alaska Weekly, 19 October 1934, p. 3; and The Alaska Weekly, 3 May 1935, p. 3.

²⁴The Alaska Weekly, 11 December 1936, p. 1; and "The Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to Secretary of Interior, 1941", NA.

²⁵The Alaska Weekly, 26 February 1937, p. 1; The Alaska Weekly, 14 January 1938, p. 1; "Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to Secretary of Interior, 1941"; the prices quoted each month by the Seattle Fur Exchange and the West Coast Fur Sales, Inc. in The Alaska Weekly, 22 November 1929 to 13 June 1941.

²⁶"Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to Secretary of Interior, 1939", RG 22, NA.

²⁷The Alaska Weekly, 7 February 1941, p. 8; The Alaska Weekly, 11 April 1941, p. 4; and Kitchener, Flag Over the North, pp. 269-70.

²⁸The Alaska Weekly, 12 May 1944, p. 2.

²⁹Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 167; Graburn and Strong, Circumpolar Peoples, p. 102; and prices quoted sporadically by the Seattle Fur Exchange and the West Coast Fur Sales, Inc. in The Alaska Weekly, 24 April 1942 to 23 February 1945.

³⁰The Alaska Weekly, 13 December 1940, p. 4.

³¹The Alaska Weekly, 31 January 1941, p. 8; and The Alaska Weekly, 14 February 1941, p. 4.

³²The Alaska Weekly, 2 May 1941, p. 8; The Alaska Weekly, 20 March 1942, p. 3; The Alaska Weekly, 13 November 194, p. 5; The Alaska Weekly, 21 May 1943, p. 3; The Alaska Weekly, 7 January 1944, p. 1; and "Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1942", Box 6, RG 22, NA; and "Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1943", Box 6, RG 22 NA.

³³"Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1941", Box 6, RG 22 NA.

³⁴"Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1942", Box 6, RG 22 NA.

³⁵"Annual Report of the Alaska Game Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, 1946", Box 6, RG 22 NA.

³⁶Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 167; Graburn and Strong, Circumpolar Peoples, p. 103; and The Alaska Weekly, 12 November 1948, p. 4.

³⁷The Alaska Weekly, editorial, 12 November 1948, p. 4.

³⁸Interview with Elmer Nelson, 19-20 September 1976; Graburn and Strong, Circumpolar Peoples p. 103; and Nelson, Hunters of the Northern Forest, p. 167.

³⁹Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier", p. 37.