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Return to: Letters from a Gold Miner: Bigger John "B. J." Bower a.k.a. Billy Bowers, 1867-1949 - Among the placer miners who worked the goldfields of Cleary Creek, Iditarod, and Ruby, one strapping young man was known as Billy Bowers.

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Ruby, Alaska, Oct. 1911

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Ruby, Alaska, in October 1911, one month after Billy Bowers arrived. Note many newly constructed buildings and canvas tents. The sternwheeler Sarah, with three barges, is just offshore. Photo by Basil Clemons. Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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