On August 4th, 2018, a de Havilland Beaver belonging to Rust’s Flying Service took off from Talkeetna airport on a 1-hour flightseeing trip with four Polish visitors. A short time later the aircraft’s ELT was triggered on a ridge high on Thunder Mountain 14 miles from the Denali Summit. The pilot, Craig Layson, made contact […]
On August 3rd, 1908, Fairbanks stepped into the automobile age when David Laiti brought a 1907 Type XV Pope-Toledo into the interior city on the steamer Cudahy. Within three days Laiti had the 50-hp, brass-laden Pope on the roads and he would use the auto to ferry customers to Fox as well as take excursion […]
The Chugach National Forest, second largest in Alaska, was penned into being on July 23, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Originally 23 million acres, it has shrank in size through the years, but, the temperate rain forest still spans the Chugach mountain range surrounding Prince William Sound to the eastern Kenai Peninsula and also includes […]
It was on July 22nd, 1902 that Felix Perdoni, an Italian immigrant, better known to history as Felix Pedro, would secure his place in Alaska history when he discovered gold one a small tributary of Cleary Creek. That discovery in the Tanacross Hills northeast of present-day Fairbanks would spark a full-fledged gold rush. The gold […]