A Short History of Mining on the Koyukuk Gates Of The ...
Prospectors on Myrtle Creek near Middle Fork of Koyukuk River, 1899. Courtesy of USGS Photographic Library (Schrader 402). This article by H. Pringel was published in The Pathfinder (Valdez) in that magazine''s April 1921 issue. It describes two decades of placer gold mining in the Koyukuk River .