Before the Fairbanks Exploration Company’s gold dredging operations could begin in the Fairbanks Mining District, a lot of preliminary work had to be done to get ready for the big ...

A view of Fairbanks in 1912. (Photo by John E. Thwaites / Public Domain image via Wikimedia) The fourth mistake was who he killed. Wimbish was a popular man in the Alaska Interior, well-known and ...

In the early months of 1910 Halley’s Comet streaked across the Fairbanks Mining District. At that same time there was a lot of upheaval in the mining camps related to ...