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Western-Landscape, places & Historic-US, Canada & Hawaii-Updated 2021.1.18

The images in this Gallery are collated alphabetically first by State Code like AZ, then in some cases a location code like GCNP(Grand Canyon National Park) and then by the date of capture and a caption. All the images on this Gallery are protected by US copyright laws. No image may be copied or downloaded without formal written permissin from Tom Jesiolowski?Northland Arts Nature Images.
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AK-Shw2000.6.21#3. Looking up Mastodon Creek from the Steese Highway Alaska.
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AK-Shw2000.6.21#3. Looking up Mastodon Creek from the Steese Highway Alaska.

  • AK-E10-1984.8.#00063.2. Spirit Houses in the Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Athabaskan Cemetery in Eklutna Alaska.
  • AK-MON-2008.7.1#084b2. Ceremonial dress crafted by Dixie Alexander's Grand Daughter. Dixie was a famous Gwich'in Athabascan artist from Fort Yukon. She must have been extremely proud of this work. Museum of the North, Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AK-MON-2008.7.1#229.2. "Blue Babe", Bison priscus, the prehistoric Steppe Bison that was discovered mummified north of Fairbanks Alaska. It was discovered by placer gold miners Walter and Ruth Roman in 1979. Paleontologist Dale Guthrie supervised the excavation and reconstruction for the University of Fairbanks Museum of the North. It was killed 36.000 years ago by a prehistoric American Lion. It's blue color for which it named was the result of the white phosphate mineral coating vivianite having a reaction with the iron in the soil when it was exposed to the air. Museum of the North, Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AK-MON-2008.7.1#230.2. A frontal view of "Blue Babe" in the previous image. Museum of the north, Fairbanks Alaska.
  • AK-MON-2008.7.2#039.2. Eskimo exhibit in the Museum of the North, Fairbanks Alaska. More to come.
  • AK-Shw1979.7#27. The original sign at the end of the Steese Highway on the Yukon River. Circle City, Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#3. Looking up Mastodon Creek from the Steese Highway Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#4. The Mammoth Creek bridge on Route 6. The Steese Highway Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#10.2. Crabb's Corner, Central, Alaska. Read the warning on the sign.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#34.4. Alaska native Athabaskan graves along the Steese Highway near Central Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#92.3. "Yukon River Boats" on the Yukon River at Circle Alaska. These long narrow boats evolved from needing a vessel that was more efficient with a smaller engine that consumed less fuel in the long distances they needed to travel on the big river.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#93.2. The sign at the end of the Steese Highway on the Yukon River, Circle City Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#95.4. A vintage bridge across Birch Creek. Route 6, the Steese Highway Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#98.2. An Adam's Leaning Wheel Horse drawn Grader No. 10 along the Steese Highway, Route 6 in the old mining town of Central Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21#99.2. The Adam's Leaning Wheel Grader No. 10 inscription on it's frame. Route 6, Steese Highway, Central Alaska.
  • AK-Shw2000.6.21.1.2. The Steese Highway, route 6 west of Mammoth Creek in Alaska.
  • AK-SP-2001.6#4714.3. Unknown Dredge. Viewed off the Nome to Teller road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPa-2001.6#2820.3. Anvil Rock on the Summit of Anvil Mountain near Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#001.2. The White Alice Tropospheric Antennas on the top of Anvil Mountain Nome. It was built by the military for more accurate remote communications (WACs) in the early 1950's. It also served as a Distant Early Warning (DEW) line covering the Arctic Circle. It became obsolete with Satellite Communication. Seward Peninsula Alaska. Four people on the far right of the ridge give some perspective to the size. This is one of only a couple of White Alice sites that the Dept. of Defense didn't dismantle in the 1970's and 80's.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#001.2X. White Alice Tropospheric Antennas. Anvil Mountain Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
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