Yukon who is who

William Frederick Schnabel (b. ~1897)

Frederick Schnabel was a stockman who became a prospector in the Yukon after he came north in 1897. He had the nickname Cowboy because he would not walk anywhere he could ride a horse. In the fall of 1897, he was forty years old and a founding member of the Freemasons of the Yukon Lodge No. 45 in Dawson. He was the first man to prospect Gray Ridge in 1898, and he found a coal seam on Schnabel Creek that summer. The creek flows into Annie Lake at the big bend of the Wheaton River. Schnabel and his wife lived in the Yukon until 1914 when they moved to Oregon.¹⁾