In the fall of 1899, the schooner C.C. Funk was lost to the harsh, unforgiving waters off the coast of Alaska, leaving its surviving crew adrift in a small boat with perilously few supplies. The three men, Charles West, John Daly, and Frank Anderson, were left to the mercy of the sea with only a…
On the morning of September 19, 1902, Nome, Alaska witnessed the state’s first legal execution when 26-year-old Fred Hardy was hanged for the murders of three gold prospectors on remote Unimak Island. Hardy, who had a troubled past, never stopped proclaiming his innocence. Hours before his death, he spoke to reporter Mary E. Hart through…
