Tristin Hopper

Articles

March 2012

Bobby On The Mountain Of Grief

After JFK's murder, his brother vowed to climb the Yukon's Mt. Kennedy. He came down a changed man.

September 2010

You Could Have Been Here

For eons, dreamers and schemers have imagined a polar utopia – a Shangri-La as pure as the driven snow. But for every promised land they’ve envisaged, the cruel north wind has blown their plans apart.

Written by Tristin Hopper

What could have been. Image by Fantasy Art Design

December 2012

When Booze Ran Dry in the Klondike

In the tipsy Yukon, prohibition was a buzzkill. Would bush planes full of liquor quench their thirst?

Written by Tristin Hopper

Long before the U.S. temperance movement put a cork in Klondike liquor, Yukoners loved their 'hooch.' Here, Dawson ladies hold a 'drinking bee' in 1900. Joseph Duclos/Dawson City Museum

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