Diaries 1912-1960.

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Diaries 1912-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42064574

This collection contains Joe Ward's diaries, including entries on daily chores, weather reports, methods of building trapline cabins and food caches and stretching skins; records of animals trapped and dates of spring breakup on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers; and some poetry.

2 ms. boxes 1.2 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7443722

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Ward, Joe (Conductor)

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Joe Ward was born in England and trained as a gardener. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, came north to Whitehorse in 1909, built a rowboat, paddled to Dawson and found work in a greenhouse. A year later he travled down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, worked at mines on Birch Creek and at Circle City, and travled up the Porcupine River to a site above Shuman House, where he built a cabin and lived for the next 40 years, operating an extensive trapline. From the de...