Richardson, Major Wilds Richardson, came to Alaska in 1906 to replace Abercrombie’s trail with an actual highway. Like Abercrombie Richardson started at the Port of Valdez, upgrading Abercrombie’s trail. But by 1906 the Klondike Gold Rush lay in the past. New gold fields lay close to Fairbanks. That and the city’s central location turned Fairbanks …
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Fairbanks, the Accidental City
Fairbanks exists because life is what happens while you are making other plans. Transportation was still a problem in 1942 In 1901 the United States Army worked on a trail from Valdez north to Eagle on the Yukon River. Civilians planned a railroad along the same route. None of that would happen, but no one …