George Boswell (d. ~1893)

George Boswell was hauling freight on the north fork of the Coeur d’Alene River in Idaho in 1888. He lost his teams in a poker game at the same time he received a letter from his brother Thomas Boswell. Thomas had just arrived in San Francisco from the Stewart River where he had recovered $6,000 in gold dust. George tried to get Ray Stewart to go north with him but both of them had suffered losses in the poker game. Ray's story is that George joined his brother Thomas in the north in 1889 and died there three or four years later.¹⁾

A story in a Sitka newspaper says that Thomas Boswell's brother George had been in the Coeur d“Alene mining district, and he joined Thomas and his party at Hootalinqua, at the mouth of the Teslin River, in 1888. George, Thomas, and Duncan McCloud went back up the Teslin River to where they had wintered. They placer mined on the bar and recovered $100 a day. George and Thomas poled up the river to Teslin Lake and then came back down the river where they met McCloud and they built a raft to go down the Yukon River. They met Dr. Dawson at the mouth of the Teslin River. Boswell's party wintered at the mouth of the Tanana and in the spring, they took sledges and dogs and went northwest 200 miles to the Koykuk River. George got scurvy and on his trip back to the winter camp he went snow blind. He managed to travel down the Yukon River and reached Seattle.²⁾