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Cap Adolphus standing on the frozen Yukon River, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, 1935.

NPS Collection photo: "Cap" Adolphus is captured standing on the frozen Yukon River ice with the temperature sixty-seven degrees below zero! According to census records, Adolphus was born on June 25, 1884 and is listed as a Vunta Gwinch'in, a tribe whose homeland lies in the upper Porcupine River area around Old Crow, Yukon Territory. In 1910, Adolphus and his wife Victoria were living in Charley's Village, a small settlement near the Kandik River (in what is today the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve). Charley's Village was washed away by spring flooding four years later. When this photo was taken, Adolphus worked for the mailman Ed Biederman, running an informal roadhouse and tending sled dogs boarded at Biederman's homestead and fish camp. He also likely worked on Yukon River steamboats where he earned the nickname "Captain". Adolphus' own fish camp is a known historical site on native allotment land not far from Eagle.

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Title: Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
URL: Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

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Organization: Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Address: PO Box 167, Eagle, AK 99738

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