Despite food shortages during World War One, the consumption of whale meat never took hold in America, Following the government’s lead, the Douglas Island News attempted to convince the general populace to partake of whale meat by extolling “Whale Beef” in their newspaper on October 7th, 1914. But while whale meat was actively consumed by […]
A day after President Taft received the request from Alaska to be granted territory status, which he did not reply to, the president went before an audience at the AYP Amphitheatre in Seattle. When he spoke there on October 1st, 1909, he spoke in opposition to granting that status to the District of Alaska. He […]
It was on this day, September 1st, 1906, that Roald Amundsen arrived in Nome aboard the sailing vessel Gjoa. Amundsen had just completed a traverse of the Northwest Passage. It was the first such traverse recorded in history. His feat took three years, which began when he left Oslofjord on June […]
