Arthur Victor Buel (1877 – 1952)
	
Arthur Buel was born in San Jose, California and his family moved to Tacoma, Washington when he was four. In 1897 he left his job as a cartoonist at the //Santa Rosa Democrat// to travel north.((Michael Gates, “Arthur Buel: Klondike cartoonist.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 10 February 2017. 2019 website: https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/arthur-buel-klondike-cartoonist/)) Buel was in Skagway in the early days of the town’s history.((“Yukon Cartoonist Arrives in City.” //Daily Alaskan// (Skagway), 5 January 1905.)) 

Buel was without money in the Klondike and worked at various jobs until George Swinehart hired him to draw cartoons for the //Dawson Midnight Sun.// That newspaper became the //Yukon Sun,// and when it was sold Buel went to work for the //Klondike Nugget.// The U.S. consul, James McCook, sued the newspaper after Buel drew McCook stumbling around with a bottle in hand. The //Nugget// was found not guilty. By 1900, he was working for the //Dawson Daily News.// His targets included other newspapers and politicians. In 1901, he drew sketches of the participants in George O’Brien’s murder trial for the //Klondike Nugget.// Buel took a trip out of the territory in 1901/02 and on his return he was hired by the //Yukon Sun.// He left again in February 1903 and returned in May to work for the //Nugget.// Buel played baseball in Dawson and enjoyed boxing as a participant and a referee. He was outclassed in a fight with F. Stanley Long in September 1903 for the Yukon amateur heavyweight championship. He was knocked down after three and a half rounds.((Michael Gates, “Arthur Buel: Klondike cartoonist.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 10 February 2017. 2019 website: https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/arthur-buel-klondike-cartoonist/))
	
The //Nugget// went out of business in 1903, bought by the //Dawson Record,// which was purchased in turn in November 1903 by the //Yukon Sun.//((Michael Gates, “Rare newspapers reveal political satire of cartoonist Arthur Buel.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 21 April 2017.)) In 1903, Buel exerted his cartooning talents on behalf of the ultimately successful James Hamilton Ross’s political run against Joe Clarke.((“Yukon Cartoonist Arrives in City.” //Daily Alaskan// (Skagway), 5 January 1905.)) In 1904, Yukon Commissioner Frederick Congdon changed the government patronage to the //Yukon World// newspaper over the previously loyal //Yukon Sun.// //The World//s chief rival was the //Dawson Daily News// who championed the political career of Dr. Alfred Thompson over Congdon. The //Yukon Sun// was revived during the 1904 election to help fight the corrupt Congdon and his supporters.((Michael Gates, “Rare newspapers reveal political satire of cartoonist Arthur Buel.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 21 April 2017.)) The //Sun// was purchased by J.B. Tyrell who had no love for Congdon. W.A. Beddoe was the new editor of the //World// and he tried to blackmail Tyrell so the newspaper was thereafter referred to as the “Blackmailer’s Gazette”. Soon after this, the //Dawson Daily News// acquired the //Sun// from Tyrell.((Michael Gates, “Rare newspapers reveal political satire of cartoonist Arthur Buel.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 21 April 2017.)) The //Daily News// bought the //Sun// in the summer of 1904 and continued publishing the morning edition. The special Sunday editions of the //Sun// featured Buel’s cartoons.((Michael Gates, “Arthur Buel: Klondike cartoonist.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 10 February 2017. 2019 website: https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/arthur-buel-klondike-cartoonist/)) In 1905, Buel supported the faction of the Liberal party (the Steam Beers) that refused to support Congdon. An Alaskan newspaper stated that he contributed to the defeat of the ex-governor.((“Yukon Cartoonist Arrives in City.” //Daily Alaskan// (Skagway), 5 January 1905.))
 	
Buel left Dawson in [January] 1905 and eventually found work at the //Tonopah Sun// (Nevada) with former Klondike newsman L.C. Branson. Then he worked at the Reno //Evening Gazette.// He married in 1911 while working for the //Sacramento Bee.// In 1922, he started at the //Fresno Bee// and worked there until his retirement in 1946.((Michael Gates, “Arthur Buel: Klondike cartoonist.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 10 February 2017. 2019 website: https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/arthur-buel-klondike-cartoonist/))
	
Some of the political cartoons drawn by Arthur Buel are held at the Yukon Archives in the Paul Forrest fonds, MSS 107 (80/35) and in the Dawson City Museum archives.