Return to: Fort Gibbon and the Village of Tanana - Even before the Klondike gold strike, Alaska's Interior was crawling with miners and traders who were drawn by gold and the opportunity to get rich.
A group of people watches the ice break up on the Tanana River at Fort Gibbon in this image dated May 15, 1913, at 12:30 p.m. Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.