George S. Black (1893 – 1953)
	
George Black was born in Seattle to Nels and Anna Black who lived in Skagway from 1900 to 1910. Black was a clerk and a wood sawyer in Skagway before he started his career as a ship’s captain.((“George S. Black.” //Skagway Stories,// 8 September 2011. 2019 website: http://www.skagwaystories.org/2011/09/08/george-s-black/)) From 1918 to 1926 Black operated the steamer //Pioneer// out of Dawson, and built a new steamer also called //Pioneer.// [At some point after that he moved to Fairbanks.]  In the next years he built or bought several more boats: he bought the //Bertha// in the late 1920s; he built the //Kusko// In 1930; and he bought the //Idler// which had diesel engines in 1935.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B))
	
Captain George Black of Fairbanks was known to his Skagway friends as Stormy Black. In 1938, he was awarded the Dawson to Nenana and the Nulato to Wiseman summer mail contracts. Black was operating three boats at that time - the //Idler//, the //Bertha//, and a gas motor launch.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 March 1938.)) In 1953 he built the steel-hulled //Yutana//. Black drowned on the last trip of the season. He had been a captain on the Yukon and Tanana rivers for thirty-seven years.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B))