“There’s gold in coal!”
Nome, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, does not have any nearby forests.
George Franklin Wade
George Franklin Wade had an astonishing record of both criminal activity and escapes. He was
Always use the best artwork you can get.
This is the interior of a real Alaska Gold Rush saloon. It was in Koyukuk
“A pet snake and a Voodoo Doll? In the White House?!”
lice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, didn’t give a whit about the ‘proper
Winter Delivery in the Alaskan Bush
To this day, one-third of Alaska’s population lives in villages that are not connected to
“When someone says, ‘He lost it all,’ they may be referring to Horace Greeley.”
Today, Horace Greeley is best known for his advice, “Go West, young man, and grow
“Sometimes you just can’t keep your feet on the ground.”
Is it possible to fly the distance of 1 ½ times around the world in
“He spoke to Jesus Christ?”
This is Quanah Parker, war leader of the Kwahadi (“Antelope”) band of the Comanches. He
“They don’t look like white supremacists to me.”
They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W.
Meet the Patron Saint of Writers in America!!
If you are a writer, you should pay homage to the figure on the right.
He was the hardest damn man to kill.”
He was James Brown Miller and he was a hired killer, from 1861 until he
“He toured the South during slavery days …. and he was black?!”
Hard as it is to believe, America’s first black celebrity was a magician, hypnotist and