From Wikipedia:
"Kaltag was a Koyokon Athabascan area used as a cemetery for
surrounding villages. It is located on an old portage trail
which led west through the mountains to Unalakleet. The
Athabascans had seasonal camps in the area and moved as the
wild game migrated. There were 12 summer fish camps located
on the Yukon Riverbetween the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna
River.
Kaltag was named by Russians for a Koyokon man named
Kaltaga.
There was a smallpox epidemic in 1839 that killed a large
part of the population of the area.
After the Alaska Purchase, a United States military
telegraph line was constructed along the north side of the
Yukon River. A trading post opened around 1880, just before
the gold rush of 1884-85. Steamboats on the Yukon, which
supplied gold prospectors ran before and after 1900 with 46
boats in operation on the river in the peak year of 1900. A
measles epidemic and food shortages during 1900 reduced the
population of the area by one-third. The village Kaltag was
established after the epidemic when survivors from three
nearby villages moved to the area.
There was a minor gold rush in the area in the 1880s. In
1906, gold seekers left for Fairbanks or Nome; however, the
galena lead mines began operating in 1919. Kaltag was
downriver from the mines and grew as a point on the
transportation route for the mines. It declined in the 1940s
as mining declined." (from Wikipedia)
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Important
Real Photo Postcard
from
Kaltag, Alaska
A great postcard photograph from Kaltag on the Yukon River.
Condition: good.
Shows the Kaltag store, boats, and
men.
Image taken July, 1907. Postmarked from Seattle (on the
front) & California (on the back).
[shelf locator: Ephemera Notebook: Yukon River region
notebook #4]
$95 plus $2.00 postage (international orders extra) for this
RPPC.
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