Alaskan History Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2. Este artículo no está disponible.Alaskan History Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2

This issue of Alaskan History Magazine features an excerpt from the recent book by longtime wilderness guide Michael Engelhard, No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City (Corax Books, September, 2025), which was an Anchorage Daily News 2025 favorite. The article focuses on Father Bernhard Rosecrans Hubbard, a Jesuit and geologist who led thirty-two expeditions to Alaska between 1927 and 1958. He was an intrepid explorer and an astute lecturer who built a career which made him the highest-paid speaker of his time.

Also in this issue is an article by James T. Bartlett, author of The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America (Los Angeles, California: Territory Books, 2023), describing a 1947 trip to the territory of Alaska by Walt Disney and his 11-year-old daughter, Sharon, who visited Anchorage, Fairbanks, Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park and Preserve), Nome, and Candle, with several traveling companions.

Additional articles in this issue include a tour of the salmon canneries which proliferated along the coast between 1879 and 1950; the history of territorial schools, including the boarding schools established under the dual federal-territorial system of education established in 1905; and an excerpted chapter from Ella Higginson’s 1908 book, Alaska The Great Country, about the exquisite basketry she discovered on her four visits to the territory between 1904 and 1908.

Alaskan History Magazine brings interesting and in-depth articles about the history of Alaska and its northern neighbors to readers in a “no advertising all history” format. Every 64-page issue features well-researched articles, book excerpts, historic photographs, maps, and images, presenting a look at several topics, events, people and places which played a role in the history of the North.