The University of Alaska inaugurated its fourth president, William Ransom Wood, on October 23rd 1960. Before coming to Alaska, Mr Wood served in the US Navy, then went on to serve as the vice president of the University of Nevada. He would serve as president of the University of Alaska for 13 years and was […]
Erik Lindbolm, one of the three Swedes who struck it rich and spurred the Nome Gold Rush, would pass away at his residence in the Claremont Hotel in Oakland, which he owned, on September 23rd, 1928, 30 years and one day after the discovery in Alaska that made him famous. Lindbolm had purchased the Claremont […]
By 1914, the war in Europe’s far reach began affecting the goings-on in Alaska. That war affected copper mining operations and several would close down in the winter of 1914. The closures were the result of labor shortages. Many of the miners were European immigrants, and those immigrants returned to Europe to fight in the […]
