Name: The Voyage of the Alaska Union with Mr. White Keys: Wasilla Speaker Series
Start: 2026-03-09T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Mat-Su Health Foundation

The Voyage of the Alaska Union with Mr. White Keys: Wasilla Speaker Series

Where: Mat-Su Health Foundation
When: Doors open at 6:30PM, Presentation starts at 7PM. Event usually lasts about an hour.
Free to attend, no need to register
Presentation details: Eighty Greenhorns from Chicago set out to strike it rich in Alaska in 1898. It was the largest Gold Rush expedition ever launched, and they had no idea what they were in for. One of the prospectors, Charles Harris, toted a 40-pound camera with him during the entire odyssey, but his images have remained unseen for 120 years.
In The Voyage of The Alaska Union, Mr. Whitekeys reveals a true tale of Alaska History that has never been told. Lavishly illustrated with 100 of Charles Harris's photographs, the book relies on century-old diaries, letters, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts that tell the story in the words of the men who were there on the Koyukuk in 1898.

It's the story of tough men who survived with what they had. It may be 70 below, you may have forgotten to pack your tent on a hundred-mile trek, but if you had doughnuts, everything was just fine.