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Learn More About Roshier Creecy and Gold Mining in Alaska

Roshier panning for gold in the winter.

Watch Roshier Creecy panning for gold in winter, at his cabin, and pulling a sled of supplies across a frozen river with his dogs in this excerpt of a silent, black and white 8 mm film made by fellow prospector Harry Leonard in the 1930s.  This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-1866 from the James and George Lounsbury collection of Harry Leonard films held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Click on the link below.

Prospector Roshier H. Creecy – YouTube

To view Leonard’s film in its entirety, click on the link below

[Harry Leonard’s Wiseman films] | Archive (uaf.edu)

Harry Leonard

Listen to Roshier Creecy oral history recordings from 9 mm cassette tapes preserved by the Oral History Archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The interviewees include fellow prospectors Harry Leonard, Fred Terrell, and Charlie Breck; friends Tishu Ulen and George Rayburn; and family members great niece, Loma Pointer, and son, Nathan. Click on the link below.

ArchiveGrid : Roshier H. Creecy Oral History Recordings (oclc.org)

Roshier and his dogs take turns pulling a sled of supplies on a frozen river.

Read about Roshier Creecy in the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation’s newsletter, “The Paystreak.”

20smrPay.pdf (alaskamininghalloffame.org)

Read what Roshier Creecy said in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, August 8, 1935, courtesy of the Pioneers of Alaska

Roshier Creecy in Fairbanks (pioneersofalaskafairbanks.org)

Learn More about Joseph Strunka and Chicago Czech culture in the early 1900s

Joe Strunka in Berwyn in 1918

Listen to Joseph Strunka recount his memories working as a child in the Chicago Czech enclave of Berwyn to help his family put food on the table.

Want to learn more about the historical Czech communities and culture of Chicago?

See the following link below.

The Historical Czech Chicagoland — CCACC (chicagocacc.org)