The thousands of pages of information rely heavily on photography, both historic and current, to share our passion for this region.
The site is constantly being worked on, and the community and highway guides that are an important part of the site for many of our readers are the sections currently being re-designed and re-written.
Spring is here - somewhere under the snow perhaps
It's getting nice and warm, but we have a record load of snow to melt before we'll see much change.
Blue beads in the tundra: The first U.S. import from Europe?
Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades.
Steamboat on the Chilkat River, 1901
An article from The Province (Vancouver, BC) of February 11, 1901, ridicules the idea.
Stories from Yukon gold mines in 1894
A lengthy illustrated article from San Francisco Chronicle of October 9, 1894.
A blog flashback: Exploring Alaska's historic Inspiration Point gold mine
Originally posted on August 4, 2013.