The Taylor Highway leads through some of the earliest and richest gold mining country in Alaska to the City of Eagle on the Yukon River. Gold was discovered by Franklin in 1886 and the old town of Forty Mile was located on the Yukon River at the m…
Sharing Food, Sharing Life - Then and NowUkpiaġvik, which means ?the place where we hunt snowy owls,' was one of several ancient villages in the Barrow area. Our ancestors settled here primarily to hunt the great bowhead whales. But their die…