This Day in Alaska History-August 20th, 1915
The recent history of a black rock
In June of 1867 — a few months before Alaska would become part of the United States with the transfer of $7.2 million to Russia — William Healey Dall picked up a shiny black rock from a riverbank. Dall was near the mouth of the Nowitna River, which flows into the Yukon River between today’s […]
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