William J. “Bill” Langham (1887 – 1965)
	
Bill Langham's father was a rancher in Montana. Bill came up to Juneau as an accountant with the military after the First World War. He came over to the Yukon around 1935 and was definitely here by 1937. Bill Harris met him in 1943 as Langham did the books for Taylor and Drury.((Sally Robinson interview with Bill Harris in Carmacks, 16 June 2003.)) He prospected at Mount Freegold in the 1930s. He was backed by Emil Forrest and found a mineral deposit good enough to interest the Ontario mining company Timmins Corporation.((Yukon Archives, John Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Unpublished manuscript, 1992: 51-2.)) He put together the LAFORMA group of claims and optioned them to Timmons.((Yukon Archives, Bee Collection, 90/28 #13-S. PHO 403.))

There were rumours in 1934 that the major company was coming into the area. John Scott was asked to go in and stake some ground for Larry Higgins, the liquor vendor, and Gusbourne, the banker. All the favourable ground had been staked. Langham suggested Scott stake the ground near the junction of Seymour and Big creeks but it came to nothing. Scott went to work for the company building a camp with others including Jack Carpenter, Billy Forbes, Malcolm Ross, Bill Langham, Dan Van Bibber and Carl Miller.((Yukon Archives, John Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Unpublished manuscript, 1992: 51-2.))  
	
Langham lived in two little cabins in Carmacks, previously owned by Orlof King. He was prospecting for Louis Lidden up by Tatchun Lake and that was the last anyone ever saw him.((Sally Robinson interview with Bill Harris in Carmacks, 16 June 2003.)) A friend drove him into the bush on 1 July 1965 and promised to bring his mail on certain dates and tie it to a tree at the end of the trail. Langham never came to pick up his mail. Whatever happened, happened on Tatchun Creek about seventeen miles below Carmacks.((R.M. Patterson, //The Dangerous River: Adventure on the Nahanni.// Touchwood Editions, 2011: foreword.)) His axe and gun were found just a few years ago on a trail leading out of Tatchun Lake. Langham loved to receive mail and when he didn't show up to collect his mail, the mail deliverer knew that he was in trouble. A group of searchers looked for him for four or five days but no trace was found at the time.((Sally Robinson interview with Bill Harris in Carmacks, 16 June 2003.)) 

Bill Langham is listed in the Yukon Prospectors Association Hall of Fame and Honour Roll for his prospecting work in the Carmacks area. Mount Langham is named for William Langham.