Historical Markers in
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska

'Cat' Houses & Sporting Women 20 Creek Street Carving a Place in History Chief Johnson Totem Pole Chief Kyan Totem Pole Creek Street Crossing a Frontier Diaz Café Dolly's House From Planks to Pavement Gold Rush Crossroads In Defiance of the Dry Squad June's Café Keeping the Catch! Ketchikan Shingle Mill Ketchikan Waterfront from Pennock Island, 1905 New York Hotel & Café Ohashi's Proud Canoes & Coastal Traders Sea and Skyline South Front Street Spirit & Sparks Star House Star-crossed Square Riggers Stedman-Thomas Historic District Tatsuda's Grocery The Gilmore Hotel The Lost Frontier Tongass Trading Company Trials by Fire Upon 'Thundering Wings' When 'Steam was Queen'
When faced with the extreme, Alaska calls into play skills and resources that 'outsiders' never have to exercise. Wisdom born of experience. Perhaps that is why Alaska has produced more innovative stuff per capita than any state in the Union. From the Aleut carved hunting hats, delicately constructed from sea lion whiskers and sea otter fur, to the slideholders made from polar bear claws, to the smoke hole plugs from mastodon bone, the real art of Alaska came from a hard sense of grace that dances with the fine line between life and death.
Nick Jans in The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos
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