Historical essays, character profiles, personal memoirs, some fiction, and many photographs. Yukon gold prospectors, trappers, fur traders, explorers, bush pilots, business people, bankers, teachers, priests—all have their stories to tell in this magazine. The Yukoner has been called a fine example of grassroots publishing (Publishers Weekly). I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did finding and publishing them.

All contents of this website copyright ©1996 The Yukoner Magazine 

Editor, Sam Holloway

Dedicated to my late wife, Dianne Green

• I Married the North (Mountie's Wife, 1940s), by Elizabeth Reid

• Hard-Luck Henry, by Robert Service

• Coming Out of the Cold (Clinton Creek), by Pete Esser

• The Sinking of the Princess Sophia, by Don Sawatsky

• Joe Loutchan and Gang, photo by Richard Harrington

• More Grab Samples, by R.C. Coutts

• Curtis, Gold Rush Photographer, by W.C. Betts

• Building the White Pass Railway, Part Two, by W.J. Swanson

• The Goldseeker, Part Seven, by Sam Holloway

• Lloyd Ryder, bush pilot, by Darrell Hookey

• The Big Inch (Quaker Oats cereal box, gold claim promotion), by Dianne Green

• Al Kulan (discoverer of Anvil Range mine), prospector, by Jane Gaffin

• Northern Roadhouses, by Murray Lundberg

• The Spell of the Yukon, by Robert Service

• I Married the North, by Elizabeth Reid

• More Grab Samples, by R.C. Coutts

• The Circle Fly, by Rick Mortimer

• Whitehorse, 1951 (photo)

• Tensley Johnston, trapper (photo)

• Building the White Pass Railway, by W.J. Swanson

• The Goldseeker, Part Seven, by Sam Holloway

• The Other Historians(Murray Lundberg, Lyall Murdoch, Grant Simpson, Jan Wotton, Chris Caldwell,), by Darrell Hookey

• The Jean Gordon Story (of Mayo), by Joyce Hayden

• I Married the North, by Elizabeth Reid

• Fire in the Yukon (Faro forest fire), by Jane Gaffin

• Herschel Island, by Don Sawatsky

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Part One, by A.T. Walden

Yukoner No. 15

• Judy, My Dog, by Tensley Johnston

• The Kathleen Wheeler Story (Dawson City), by Anne Templeman-Kluit

• Fur Trade Days (Fort Selkirk, 1930s, photos), by Jim Kirk

• Yukon Sean in the North (cheechako, 1999), by Sean McNeely

• I Married the North, by Elizabeth Reid

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Part Two, by A.T. Walden

• The Northernairs (Bill and Rusty Reid, musicians, 50 years), by Darrell Hookey

• Edith Josie, Here Are The News (of Old Crow), by Roxanne Livingstone

• This Building Had Big Ears (radar, Cold War), by Jane Gaffin

• The Coldest Day (1947), by Dianne Green

• Gun-An-Noot fugitive, manhunt, by Don Sawatsky

• Alone (survival story), by Bev Wood

• In Campbell's Footsteps, by Anton Money

• Steamboats (photo) by Anton Money

• Will Rogers' Last Ride, by Dick North

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Part Two, by A.T. Walden

• Farewell to John Hatch, Yukon photographer

• Captain Dick and the Sourtoe (Dick Stevenson and the Sourtoe Cocktail), by Sam Holloway

• The Yukon Banker (banking in the 50s & 60s), by John Skelton

• Basketball on the Coast (a team plays against Skagway in the 1950s), by Les McLaughlin

• Dawson City Childhood (1930s), by John Gould

• Marsh Lake Camp (Marsh Lake Lodge, 1949-1950), by Dorothy Stuart

• I Married the North (tales of a Mountie's wife), by Elizabeth Reid

• You Know You're From the Yukon When...

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Part Four, by A.T. Walden

• Faro, the Town that Wouldn't Die, by Darrell Hookey

• Dennis Mackie, Radio Pioneer, by Betty Mackie

• Salvation Bill, by Les McLaughlin

• Arctic Trapline (photos)(Old Crow), by Doris and Stu Macalister

• Hunting Gold in Whitehorse, by Darrell Hookey

• Andy Anderson, One-Armed Prospector, by Jane Gaffin

• The Gift of the Piano (Old Crow), by Sheila Rose

• I Married the North, by Elizabeth Reid

• Alaska Highway Pin-Up Girls (1940s)

• Starvation in the Klondike (Gold Rush), by William J. Betts

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, by A.T. Walden

Yukoner No. 19

• The Yukon's Most Famous Survival (Ralph Flores, Helen Klaben, 1963), by Thomas Whiteside

• Since the Rescue (of the above couple), by Sam Holloway

• Klondike Nurse (Jean Bredenberg), by Eric Jamieson

• Johnny Friend of Watson Lake, by John Skelton

• Sam McGee, by Les McLaughlin

• Posted to Whitehorse (Army, 1962-64), by Elizabeth Symon

• Kicked by a Dead Moose, by George W. Gilbert

• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, by A.T. Walden

Yukoner No. 20

• Shaback’s Run (story of a trapper who starved to death), by Elizabeth Reid

• Anecdotes of a Rounder (trapper), by Hank Horn

• River Wild (Tatshenshini), by Darrell Hookey

• Thea of the Yukon (Telegraph Trail), by William Miller

• Stroller White,(journalist) by Les McLaughlin

• The Disney Dogs (Huskies), by Nancy Bennett

• Al Downes, miner/prospector, by Sam Holloway

• The Music Man of Dawson, by Mag Mawhinney

• Dogpuncher on the Yukon, by Arthur Walden

Yukoner No. 21

• Lady of Sloughmill (Mickey Lammers), by Dianne Green

• Road to Keno City by Sam Holloway

• Keno Refuses to Die, by Jane Gaffin

• Transporting Ore from Keno Hill in 1956 (photos)

• High-Grading at United Keno,(theft of silver) by Joe Riddell

• Memories of Keno Hill Mines, by Joe Riddell

• Sam Steele of the Mounted, by Nancy Bennett

• Anecdotes of a Rounder, by Hank Horn

• The Partners, by Sam Holloway

• So Far Away (in Clinton Creek), by Yukon Pete Esser

• White Gold (asbestos) by Archie Gillespie

• Archie Gillespie, the Roving Reporter by the Gillespie Family

• Jim Robb's Ice Worms, by Archie Gillespie

• Jack & Flo Christy of Watson Lake, by John Skelton

• Women Workers, Quonset Hut, 1944 (photo),

• Over the Chilkoot--the Wrong Way (1960), by Jim Lotz

• Kicked by a Dead Moose, by George W. Gilbert

• Ben-my-Chree, unknown author

• Neil Wright, Yukoner by Mike Craigen

• They're Lost on the Chilkoot by Elizabeth Symon

• Doctoring in the Yukon, by Elizabeth Symon

• The Camping Trip, by Edward Olive

• History of the Whitehorse Copper Belt, by Dick McKenna

• Kicked by a Dead Moose, by George W. Gilbert

Yukoner No. 24

• My Yukon Journey, by Don Taylor

• Trappers' Winter Radio Sked, by Delores Smith

• The D.E.W. Line's Last Days(Distant Early Warning Line), by Joanne Jackson Johnson

• Jim Robb Goes to Army Beach, by Sam Holloway

• Homesteading at Lake Laberge, by Josephine Budda

• Pioneer Days on the Alaska Highway, by W.R. Clarke

• Alaska Highway Lodges in 1961

•Jim and Dorothy Cook of Koidern River Lodge (photos)

• My Yukon Adventure, by Bill Weigand

• The Penny Sippel Story, by Dianne Green

• Wolf Story, by Rick Mortimer

• Terry Delaney of CBC, by Les McLaughlin

• Digger Cook's Memoirs, as told to Henry Legel

• A Hunt to Remember, by Rick Mortimer

• The Death of Billy Sims, by Rick Mortimer

• The Famous Carcross Parrot, Sam Holloway

• Roadhouses of the North, by Dick McKenna

• An Australian in the Yukon - The Will Perkins Story, from his letters to home

• The Babe Richards Story, by Dianne Green

• The TC Richards, by Dianne Green

• The Yukon's Favourite Prospector, by Jane Gaffin

• The Whalers of Herschel Island, by Dick McKenna

• Elly Porsild, by Ellen Davignon

• Will Perkins' Ghost, by Sam Holloway

• A Dogpuncher on the Yukon, by Arthur Walden

• The Taylor & Drury Yukon Empire, by Dick McKenna

• Tall Tales of the Yukon, by Robbie Benoit

• Me and My Dogs(dog mushing), by Stacie Zaychuk

• Bride of the Arctic, (reindeer herding) by Elly Porsild

• Aaro Aho, Minefinder,, by Jane Gaffin

• Kluane Winter Vacation (photos),(Alaska Highway) by Sam Holloway

• The Bert Law Alaska Highway Lodge, by Jane Gaffin

• Climbing The Chilkoot Trail, by Amanda Ford

• Alaska Highway Truckers,, by Mike Craigen

• Fr. Rigaud and the Oblate Missions, by Michael Dougherty

• Monty Alford and Mountains, by Frank McLaughlin

• Will Rogers in Dawson City, , by Eric Jamieson

• The Wreck of the Columbian (dynamite explosion on a sternwheeler, Yukon River)
• Swiftwater Bill (Bill Gates)
• Klondike Kate (Kate Rockwell)
• Madame Tremblay (Emilie Tremblay)
• Robert Service (poet)
• Jack London (his Yukon adventure)
• Edna Eldorado (a baby born on Christmas Eve)
• Mollie Walsh (killed by abusive husband, memorial by Packer Jack in Skagway, Alaska)
• Bishop Isaac Stringer (the bishop who ate his boots to survive)
• Captain Courageous (towboats on the Mackenzie River, Hay River, Great Slave Lake, Ramparts, Herschel Island, Pauline Cove)
• Ghosts of Dawson 
• With Friends Like These (some characters in Dawson City)
• The Hermit's Cave (on the Mayo River, gold mine)
• Dry Rice (Burwash Landing Lodge)
• Too Much Gold (placer mining)
• 93 pages with 61 photos