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 George T. Snow (1847 - 1925) George T. Snow (1847 - 1925)
   
-George Snow was born in Louisiana.((Dawson City Museum, Yukon Order of Pioneers coll., microfilm.)) He joined the US Navy at age fourteen. He arrived in Juneau in 1887 with his wife, two children, and brother Joseph.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.)) +George Snow was born James Fink in Boston, Massachusetts and ran away from home at age 17 to join the navy. By 1870, Fink was a professional actor using the stage name of George T. Snow. In 1884, he was living in Port Townsend, Washington with his wife and two children. Between 1884 and 1887, he and his family performed at home and in Victoria, British Columbia.((Michael Gates, "A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.)) Snow and his family with his brother Joseph arrived in Juneau in 1887.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.)) Snow was running the Opera House in Juneau.((Michael Gates, "A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.))
  
-In 1888, he and partner George Miller came into the Yukon River basin, visited the Stewart Island trading post and mined the river bars of the Stewart River.((Snow Papers in Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 29.)) In 1892, he travelled into the Yukon River basin on a second prospecting trip. In 1894, he brought his family and combined prospecting with his profession of acting. His troupe included his wife Anna, his son Monte, his daughter Crystal Brilliant, and his brother Joe.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47.))+In 1888, Snow and partner George Miller came into the Yukon River basin, visited the Stewart Island trading post and mined the river bars of the Stewart River.((Snow Papers in Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 29.)) In 1892, he travelled into the Yukon River basin on a second prospecting trip. In 1894, he brought his family and combined prospecting with his profession of acting. His troupe included his wife Anna, his son Monte, his daughter Crystal Brilliant, and his brother Joe.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47.))
   
 Snow opened a theatre in Forty Mile and brought in a troupe of music-hall girls from San Francisco. There is no evidence that these women were prostitutes but the youngest girl in the troupe was known as "The Virgin" because the miners thought she might have seen one. Some of the theatre scenery was very elaborate.(("Early Social Diversions at Fortymile." //Yukon News,// 2 March 1994 in Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek.//)) In December 1894, Snow was a founding member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Forty Mile.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.))  Snow opened a theatre in Forty Mile and brought in a troupe of music-hall girls from San Francisco. There is no evidence that these women were prostitutes but the youngest girl in the troupe was known as "The Virgin" because the miners thought she might have seen one. Some of the theatre scenery was very elaborate.(("Early Social Diversions at Fortymile." //Yukon News,// 2 March 1994 in Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek.//)) In December 1894, Snow was a founding member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Forty Mile.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.)) 
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 In January 1896, a resolution at a meeting of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Circle City authorized Snow to compile a history of the Yukon Valley. This was eight months before gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek. The history was never published but the disorganized papers were saved.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47.)) In January 1896, a resolution at a meeting of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Circle City authorized Snow to compile a history of the Yukon Valley. This was eight months before gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek. The history was never published but the disorganized papers were saved.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47.))
   
-In 1897, Snow worked claims on Bonanza Creek and the family moved to Seattle in 1898. They returned to Juneau in 1900 and to Skagway in 1909. In 1910, they moved back to Seattle. George became the commander of the Grand Army of the Republic posted in Seattle in 1915. Anna was a founding member of the Ladies of the Golden North in 1919.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.))+In 1897, George and his brother Joe worked claims on Bonanza Creek and then George and his family moved to California in 1899.((Michael Gates, "A Salute to History Hunters from the past." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2025.)) They returned to Juneau in 1900 and to Skagway in 1909. In 1910, they moved back to Seattle. George became the commander of the Grand Army of the Republic posted in Seattle in 1915. Anna was a founding member of the Ladies of the Golden North in 1919.((Stan Cohen, //A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook.// Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., 1996: 145.))
   
 Snow lived in Alaska for twenty-five years. The stories he collected from his contemporaries were scattered over a dining room table when he died in Seattle. His daughter, Crystal Snow Jenne, boxed them up and took them to her home in Juneau. They remained undisturbed until 1964 when she gave permission for them to be microfilmed by the Baker Library, Dartmouth College.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47; The Snow Papers of the Yukon, 1896-. (Microfilm) are held at the Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and are at the Yukon Archives, "Snow Papers of the Yukon" on microfilm.)) Snow lived in Alaska for twenty-five years. The stories he collected from his contemporaries were scattered over a dining room table when he died in Seattle. His daughter, Crystal Snow Jenne, boxed them up and took them to her home in Juneau. They remained undisturbed until 1964 when she gave permission for them to be microfilmed by the Baker Library, Dartmouth College.((Evan Hill, “The Snow Papers.” 6 October 1964. Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47; The Snow Papers of the Yukon, 1896-. (Microfilm) are held at the Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and are at the Yukon Archives, "Snow Papers of the Yukon" on microfilm.))
  
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