Roshier Harrison Creecy (1866 - 1948)
	
Roshier Creecy was a black man born in Rustburg, Virginia. He ran away from home and joined the U.S. Army, Ninth Regiment (Buffalo Soldiers). He was assigned to Company M stationed at Fort Duchesne, Utah to secure the border and ensure law and order. After he was honorably discharged, he married and settled in Washington, D.C. where he and his wife had a son. Rochier was a stampeder in the Klondike gold rush. In 1901, he lied to the Canadian census-taker saying he was a single Mexican man who arrived in the Yukon in 1863. In 1903, he reported himself to be an American resident of Dawson occupied as a gambler. In September 1903, his wife contacted the American consul in Dawson looking for him and on receiving no reply divorced him. In 1904, Rosier was the proprietor of the Eureka Creek roadhouse. In May 1905, his roadhouse was broken into while he was staying in Dawson. In 1906, he mushed a dog team to the upper Koyukuk country where he remained for the rest of his life.((Margaret F. Merritt, //Roshier H. Creecy.// RDS Publications, 2020: ix, 66-73.))