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Golden Days - Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Section "A", July 17, 1959

 File — Container: MS 091 Box K, Folder: P.91.005

Scope and Contents

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Successor to Fairbanks Daily News. "The Big Pay Day!" From the ends of the earth came these adventurers...to reap the golden harvest from the world's last (and biggest) bonanza. Most found it simply heartbreaking, back-breaking labor with little reward. But many went into the wilderness destitute...and came out wealthy at the big pay day! *"Youth who arrived in 1905 still here" *"Prophecy of 1912 not quite true" *"Optimistic prophecy of 1912 falls short" *"Coming of Churches add sign of permanence" *"Patriotic days observed" *"Friends find Old Trapper Dead in his cabin on Chena" *"Alaska opened her heart to tourists" *"No progress reported on railroad" *"Retired Captain recalls life on Yukon" *"Seven lost coming in from creek" *"By thousands they came....Men become human pack animals on trail through the passes" *"The Ole' Timers said..."There's Gold in them Thar Hills"...but the Ole' Timers were wrong" *"The Law at Dawson" *"Lucky day for Barnette...he was the recipient of the largest solid gold nugget yet discovered in this camp" *"Early telephone systems provided communication" *"Packet boat on the Yukon"in 1900. "Captain Barnette's boat"in 1904. *"Bold hold-up occurs at Cleary" *"She arrived as a Bride" *"The quest for riches lured these prospectors to forty mile country" *"Fairbanks depended on the River for Supplies" *"Douglas slowed down when Treadwell Mine Caved In" *"Trail to Gold lay through Canada"

Dates

  • July 17, 1959

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