Buck Keish Dickson (1909 – 1961)
Buck Dickson was born in the Kluane Lake area, eldest son to Thomas and Louise George Dickson.1) Buck married Lily, a daughter of Edith and Patsy Henderson. 2) He bought his father’s hunting territory in the early 1940s. Buck was a skilled hunter and fisher and was especially well-known as a successful trapper.3) When the Yukon government started registering outfitting areas, Buck’s area became concession #10.4) Buck and brother Richard started a mink farm after the Alaska Highway was built.5)
In 1958, Dickson was involved in the recovery of a three-ton slab of copper from the White River area. He and Carl Chambers, federal game warden Joe Langevin, and cat-skinner Dave Hume, dragged the rock out of the bush and loaded it onto a flat-bed truck. The rock now sits at the south-west corner of the MacBride Museum property in Whitehorse and is dedicated to Yukon pioneer prospectors including Clem Emminger who originally located the slab in 1953.6)
Buck Dickson sold his hunting concession to his brother Richard in 1959.7)