Text Appearing Before Image: f who controlled all the packing of goods into that country. Having succeeded in enabling white miners to enter the Yukon country without being attacked or held up, the Chilkats were won over from violent hostility to such terms of admiring friendship for a strong man that they made him a chief. This honor pleased Healy because after he had fought the Blackfeet in Montana, they respected him to the extent of making him a warrior of the Elk band. He had twice proved that an honest enemy can become the best kind of a friend. For three years Captain Healy explored the coast of Alaska in those early days, looking for passes into the interior. Hew as three times shipwrecked, but escaped to join the first gold rush into that country. He saw the possibilities of the territory, and advocated a railroad over White Passso far ahead of his time that the miners laughed at him as a crazy-headed fool. When gold was discovered on Forty Mile Creek, Captain Healy came out of the wilderness long enough to organize a trad- Text Appearing After Image: John J. Healy—pioneering company which pushed its agents up the Yukon and locked horns with the powerful Alaska Commercial Company which wished to keep the miners out and preserve the territory as a furtrading country. When gold was found on the Yukon, Captain Healy was ready for business with a fleet of river steamers. By this time he was an old timer in Alaska, and was considered the best posted man in the territory. It was he who suggested to Baron deLobel, the French engineer, the monumental idea of The Trans-Alaskan-Siberian-Railway, with a tunnel beneath Behring Straits. Captain Healy is not a visionary, and he believes that some day will see a million population in Alaska, and the brown tundras of Eastern Siberia covered with a vast and busy multitude of settlers getting rich from the mineral deposits. Then the railroad will become a reality. Captain Healy has lived to see more startling dreams than this come true. A pioneer who has beheld great states built out of a wilderness wherein
Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Cette image est issue de la collection The Commons du site Flickr. Les organismes y partageant leur collection déclarent qu'à leur connaissance, aucune restriction de droit d'auteur ne fait obstacle à leur diffusion, pour l'une des raisons suivantes :
l'œuvre est dans le domaine public car les droits d'auteur ont expiré ;
l'œuvre a été rattachée au domaine public pour d'autres raisons, tel que le non respect des conditions nécessaires pour renouveler des droits d'auteur ;
l'organisme est détenteur des droits d'auteur mais ne ne souhaite pas exercer son contrôle ou ;
l'organisme possède des droits suffisant pour permettre à des tiers d'utiliser ces travaux sans aucune restriction.
Merci d'ajouter des bandeaux de licence supplémentaires à cette image si des informations plus spécifiques sont disponibles à propos du statut de cette image. Consultez Commons:À propos des licences pour plus d'informations.
No known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttps://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/false
Cette image a été originellement postée sur Flickr par Internet Archive Book Images à l'adresse https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14802309013. Elle a été passée en revue le 23 septembre 2015 par le robot FlickreviewR, qui a confirmé qu'elle se trouvait sous licence No known copyright restrictions.
23 septembre 2015
Légendes
Ajoutez en une ligne la description de ce que représente ce fichier