William Arthur Blair 
	
William Blair and Peter Eikland were from the southern United States. They met in Alaska and came into the Yukon together at the beginning of the 1900s to trap and prospect.((Eric N. Foster, //Mile 1202: Life along the Alaska Highway.// Stuart Channel Publishing, 2012: 27, 30-31.)) In 1942, when the first cat came through building the pioneer Alaska Highway, Blair was going to Snag to get supplies, and he asked the cat driver where he was going. The driver told him to go to the camp and ask for food which was given to him at no cost (sugar, rice, tea, and more). The cat operator gave him a ride back to his prospecting camp twenty miles away and later cut a trail so William and his partner had an easy time getting back and forth. William and Pete loved the new road.((David A. Remley, //Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2008: 57-58.))

Blair and Eikland bought the old Jacob Dolan trading post at Snag in 1945 after Dolan died. They ran it for about three years. They brought groceries in from Dawson on the boats in the summer. They had a team of horses and a big garden with turnips, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. Most of the harvest was given to First Nation people in the village and some was kept in a root cellar for the winter.((Charles Eikland interview with Stacey Carkhuff, 2018 web site: “Charles Eikland, 10 November 2008, Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory. UAF # ?). http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html)) 

William Blair married a First Nations woman [need her name]. They raised most of their children at Snag before the family moved to Beaver Creek in [need date]. Blair developed Alzheimer’s and was moved to the Pioneer Home in Dawson in the 1960s.((Eric N. Foster, //Mile 1202: Life along the Alaska Highway.// Stuart Channel Publishing, 2012: 27, 30-31.))