Yukon who is who

James B. Dubois (1861 – 1918)

James Dubois was born in Oregon City, Oregon. He was a cowboy for former President Roosevelt in the bad lands of North Dakota. He came to Dawson in 1898 and mined in various places until 1910 when he purchased the Riverside Hotel at Eagle, Alaska. He ran the hotel and mined some property on American Creek. He bought a ticket to Seattle in the fall of 1918 and drowned when the Princess Sophia sank in the Lynn Canal.¹⁾