Iñupiaq men in qayaqs, Noatak, Alaska, circa 1929. Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collections.
Crossing the Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898. Courtesy Candy Waugaman and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
The Gold Rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.
Make a gift to the Alaska Historical Society in memory of Stephen Haycox. Steve will be honored this fall at the 2026 Alaska Historical Society annual conference.
STEVE HAYCOX (1940-2025) Alaska historian Steve Haycox’s 40-plus years at the University of Alaska Anchorage guided the history department’s development from its early years as the Senior College (1971
1977). He served in the U.S. Navy where he was a musician and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. Steve’s major scholarship was Alaska’s history and its relationship with the federal government with his books, Alaska: An American Colony (2002) and Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness (2016). Awarded Historian of the Year in 2003, he was recipient of numerous university awards and state commendations, and served as AHS president and on the Cook Inlet Historical Society board.
