Mon, May 25, 2015
AHS congratulates Damon Stuebner, longtime society member and staff at Alaska Historical Collections in Juneau, on his recent award for chronicling the history of the Coast Guard Cutter STORIS. [caption id="attachment_3749" align="alignright" width="300"] Damon Stuebner and his wife Rebecca Tyson Smith (documentary’s co-producer) with 1957 STORIS crewmates Clair Upton, Chuck Schmitzer, and Dick Juge at a special screening of his documentary.[/caption] Members of the All Coast Guard Ships Veterans’ Association and the Alaska/Bering Sea Patrol Veterans’ Associations honored Stuebner...
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Fri, April 24, 2015
by Thomas K. Bundtzen In April, 2014, the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation (AMHF) inducted Peter Petrovich Doroshin into its organization during a ceremony held at the foundation’s museum in Fairbanks. To many familiar with the late Russian-American period, Doroshin is credited with finding the first, albeit small, concentrations of placer gold on the Kenai Peninsula in 1848, but he was never able to develop a commercial scale mining operation. Some historians have thus concluded that the Russian mining...
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Fri, April 17, 2015
Charles Caldwell Hawley, A Kennecott Story—Three Mines, Four Men and One Hundred Years 1897-1997. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2014. Review by Thomas K. Bundtzen Much of the historic mining legacy in Alaska focuses on the search and development of gold. Although copper, a base metal, may seem less glamorous than gold, its discovery and development played an important role in the early development of Alaska. As the world entered the 20th century, copper proved vital to the...
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Thu, April 02, 2015
The following article comes from Pacific Fisherman (January 1955), page 44. Thanks to Jim Mackovjak for contributing this. Sixty Years of Salmon Canning Ready E. Buschmann for Next Move With 60 years of personal and continuous activity in the salmon fishing and canning business behind him, Eigil Buschmann retired this winter as general superintendent of Nakat Packing Corporation, a position he has held for 32 years, since the company was formed in 1922. This doesn’t mean that the man who...
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Sun, March 29, 2015
By J Pennelope Goforth The curious story of the naming of the town of Seward was documented aboard the steamer BERTHA out of Seattle bound for Alaska on her regular monthly voyage in the summer of 1902. A party of engineers for the Alaska Central Railway headed to Resurrection Bay and a professor of history from the University of Washington made their acquaintance on deck. The result of their meeting has preserved how the town of Seward narrowly escaped...
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