Frank Henry Back (d. 1932)
Frank Back came to the Klondike from Idaho in 1907 with his father Captain Henry Seymour Back. Captain Back had been in the Klondike in 1898 and returned to Idaho in 1900. Frank and Ida May married in 1907 and Ida May and their daughter Lois Austin Back lived in Spokane until 1911 when they joined Frank in Carmacks.1)
Discovery Claim on Nansen Creek was staked and recorded by Frank Back and Tom [Thomas Edward] Bee on 13 June 1910.2) Lois and Tom Bee married in 1913.3)
Frank Back established a fox farm at Carmacks. In April 1925, his foxes had four silver litters, and he was waiting for seven more pairs to have kits.4) Ida May ran the fox farm after Frank died in 1932.5)
Lois and Tom’s eldest child Austin was born in Whitehorse in 1914. Austin returned to the Yukon around 1933 to help his grandmother run the farm.6) There were at last two other fox farms in Carmacks in the 1930s.7) Ida May kept the farm until 1939 when she liquidated the stock and property and moved outside the Yukon.8)