Thomas Arthur “T.A.” Rickard (1864 -1953)
	 
T.A. Rickard was born in Italy to a British mining family and was educated in Russia and England. He graduated in 1885 from the Royal School of Mines in London. His first job was in Idaho Springs as an assayer for a British mining firm. In 1887 he was appointed manager of the Union Mine in Calavaras Country, California. He worked as a consultant to several exploration companies in England and Australia and managed silver-lead mines in the French Alps. Between 1889 and 1902, he travelled over 35,000 miles with his consulting business. In 1896, he was appointed State Geologist for Colorado. In 1903, he became editor-in-chief of the //Engineering and Mining Journal// in New York. He purchased the //Mining and Scientific Press// in 1905 and became its editor in 1906. The //Press// building burned to the ground in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the //Berkeley Reporter// printed the mining paper on a single sheet. It was sent to subscribers as San Francisco was still on fire. Rickard was later the editor of the //Mining// magazine and published many articles and books including the classic //Man and Metals// (1932) and //A History of American Mining// (1932).((T.A. Rickard (Deceased 1953).” American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 2019 website: http://aimehq.org/programs/award/bio/t-rickard-deceased-1953)) 	
	
Rickard visited the Yukon and Alaska in the summer of 1908. He travelled over 8250 miles with Scott Turner who took photographs during the trip.((T.A. Rickard, //Through the Yukon and Alaska.// Mining and Scientific Press, 1909: preface.))) Rickard’s writing about the north include //Through the Yukon and Alaska// (1909) and //The Yukon Ditch// (1909). //Through the North and Alaska// has been digitized by The Library of Congress.((The Library of Congress website: https://archive.org/stream/throughyukonalas01rick/throughyukonalas01rick_djvu.txt))