Frank Stickney (d. 1899)

Frank Stickney and Charlie Jackson, of Seattle, were partners camping at Rampart House in 1899. Stickney went out hunting and never returned. Jackson walked 200 miles, with a forty-five-pound pack, down the Porcupine River without a dog or a guide. He was lucky to meet up with some First Nation people. He arrived at the wintering riverboat John J. Healy on 13 February 1899. Charlie searched and waited for Stickney for over three months.1)

H. S. Anderson, purser of the steamer John J. Healy, believed that it was prospector Stickney’s skeleton that was found near Rampart House in the fall of 1902.2)

1)
Capt. A. E. Le Ballister, Yukon log, 1898-9. James William Keen, Papers MS 152 AHC, Alaska State Library.
2)
“Skeleton mystery is now explained.” The Yukon Sun (Dawson), 6 August 1903.