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| b:ja_baker [2024/10/01 16:00] – created sallyr | b:ja_baker [2026/01/23 21:40] (current) – sallyr |
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| James “Jim” Baker. (d. 1895) | James “Jim” Baker. (d. 1895) |
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| Jim Baker was probably from Nashville, Tennessee and spent his youth supplying game in the west for lumber and mining camps.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) Baker came into the Yukon over the Dalton Trail with a herd of cattle. He drove them to the Pelly River where they were slaughtered and shipped to Mayo. On his return he married Sadie, a Tagish woman from Marsh Lake. They lived in the Kluane Lake area.((Larry Bratvold, //Strange Things Done...: A Yukon Odyssey.// Tagish: Headwater Publication. 1999: 19-20.)) "Tanner" Baker got his nickname from the texture of his breakfast bannock. He was nick-named by fellow guides out of Kluane Lake in 1916.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) \\ | Jim Baker was probably from Nashville, Tennessee and spent his youth supplying game in the west for lumber and mining camps.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) Baker came into the Yukon over the Dalton Trail with a herd of cattle. He drove them to the Pelly River where they were slaughtered and shipped to Mayo. On his return he married Sadie [Sadie Jackie], a Tagish woman from Marsh Lake. They lived in the Kluane Lake area.((Larry Bratvold, //Strange Things Done...: A Yukon Odyssey.// Tagish: Headwater Publication. 1999: 19-20.)) "Tanner" Baker got his nickname from the texture of his breakfast bannock. He was nick-named by fellow guides out of Kluane Lake in 1916.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) \\ |
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| The Bakers moved up the Teslin River where they raised a family.((Larry Bratvold, //Strange Things Done...: A Yukon Odyssey.// Tagish: Headwater Publication. 1999: 19-20.)) Sadie and Jim had four children: John, Jack, Elsie and Dorothy. Elsie never knew her mother who died of smallpox around 1917/1918 [1914 at Cultus Lake?]. They had just moved from their home on the Slims River to the Livingstone area. After Sadie's death, Elsie and Dorothy were sent to the residential school in Dawson.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) In April 1925, Baker made a hurried trip to Dawson by dog team to see his four children at St. Paul’s hostel.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 17 April 1925.)) \\ | The Bakers moved up the Teslin River where they raised a family.((Larry Bratvold, //Strange Things Done...: A Yukon Odyssey.// Tagish: Headwater Publication. 1999: 19-20.)) Sadie and Jim had four children: John, Jack, Elsie [Suits] and Dorothy. Elsie never knew her mother who died of smallpox around 1917/1918 [1914 at Cultus Lake?]. They had just moved from their home on the Slims River to the Livingstone area. After Sadie's death [at age 30 in 1919], Elsie and Dorothy were sent to the residential school in Dawson.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) Sadie died at Cottoneva and is buried on a hillside above the Livingstone townsite.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 18.)) In April 1925, Baker made a hurried trip to Dawson by dog team to see his four children at St. Paul’s hostel.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 17 April 1925.)) \\ |
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| In 1928, Jim built a number of cabins on the Boswell River and brought the girls home. Elsie was then fourteen. The Bakers lived at Boswell until the early 1940s when they moved into a community along the Alaska Highway.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) \\ | In 1928, Jim built a number of cabins on the Boswell River and brought the girls home. Elsie was then fourteen. The Bakers lived at Boswell until the early 1940s when they moved into a community along the Alaska Highway.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 56-58.)) \\ |
