| Seward
| Moose
Pass | Girdwood
| Eagle River | Eklutna
|
| Knik | Skwentna
| Tolovana Roadhouse | Rainy
Pass | Takotna |
| Iditarod | Kaltag
| Galena | Unalakleet
| Golovin | Solomon
| Nome |
Unalakleet
History:
Archaeologists
have dated house remnants along the beach ridge from 200 B.C. to
300 A.D. The name Unalakleet means "place where the east wind
blows. Unalakleet has long been a major trade center as the terminus
for the Kaltag Portage, an important winter travel route connecting
to the Yukon River. Indians on the upper river were considered "professional"
traders who had a monopoly on the Indian-Eskimo trade across the
Kaltag Portage. The Russian-American Company built a post here in
the 1830s. In 1898, reindeer herders from Lapland were brought to
Unalakleet to establish sound herding practices. In 1901, the Army
Signal Corps built over 605 miles of telegraph line from St. Michael
to Unalakleet, over the Portage to Kaltag and Fort Gibbon.
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