Arthur Clarence Pillsbury was a revolutionary inventor and photographer who captured Wrangell's homes, people, and totems during the Klondike Gold Rush.

As the population of gold miners in Fort Wrangel swelled into the thousands, the death of a Tlingit headman in U.S. Army custody threatened to spark a war that would upend it all.

When the steamer Hope was abandoned in Fort Wrangel during the Cassiar Gold Rush in 1875, it became part of the formation of the Wrangell waterfront.

When the Alaska Packers Association seized another salmon stream in 1899, Tlingit leaders from Fort Wrangel wrote a letter in protest, and passed the torch to a new generation.

We Teach in Alaska is a BIA handbook published between 1957 and 1965. It documents the agency’s policies, practices, and advice for teachers across Alaska’s BIA schools.

In 1898, John Kadashan of Fort Wrangel was among the Tlingit leaders to confront Governor John G. Brady about their stolen fishing streams.

In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison received a letter written by the lawyer representing “the Indians of South Eastern Alaska.” It is recognized as the first legal step in the fight for Alaska Native land claims.

For the past six presidential races, voter turnout at Wrangell’s precinct has declined. Where did all the voters go?

To understand how Wrangell’s Alaska Packers Association cannery produced tons of canned salmon each year, here are the freshwater streams that provided the salmon.