Fort Yukon. Hudson Bay Company grave - Eric Wards. Wooden tombstone reads: "Sacred to the memory of Eric Wards HB Co. Ser. who was drowned on the 18th May 1867 age 21 years."
Olaus Murie (1889 - 1963) led a life worthy of a dozen adventure novels, and his conservation legacy is still carried on by his wife, Mardy. The son of Norwegian immigrants, Murie joined after college the Carnegie Museum’s expeditions to Hudson...