Yukon who is who

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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.)) 

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.))
	
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.)) 
	
In 1895, the Snows moved to Circle City, Alaska and built a two-story log theatre.((Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane G. Haigh, //Children of the Gold Rush.// Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1999: 1-7.)) He and his partner, Byron Allison, started building the theatre, the Grand Opera House, in the spring of 1895 and finally formed a partnership with the Alaska Commercial Co. to complete it. Snow Snow and his family performed classics and sponsored shows performed by others.((Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon.// Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994: 126; William Douglas Johns, "The Early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike Discovery as they were before the Great Klondike Stampede swept away the old conditions forever." Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, pages 136-137, 181. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.))
	
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.))
	
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.))