ANCHORAGE — Alaska-Miners were pulling gold out of eastern Alaska even before the thousands of fortune hunters rushed north to the Klondike gold fields next door in Canada’s Yukon Territory. But ...

On a recent river trip down the Porcupine River, which runs from Canada's Ogilvie Mountains to the Yukon River near Fort Yukon, my friend Garrett Jones and I nosed into a few townsites we saw on ...

Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown. See the story, photos, and map in the March issue of National Geographic Magazine. I certainly have a much better understanding of true wilderness, due in ...

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...

A few days ago, at the end of a summerlong journey in which he navigated nearly the entire Yukon River without a boat, Denis Morin was overcome by all he was and all he had been through. The ...

RCC Perspectives, No. 4, Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History (2011), pp. 16-43 (28 pages) Attla, Catherine. K'etetaalkkaannee: The One Who Paddled Among the People and ...

Tales from the Klondike (1898) -- The great river of Alaska (1885) -- Eskimo whaling (1891) -- Hunting the big game of Alaska (1902) -- The Indian hunter of the far northwest (1902) -- Alaskan ...