Figure 1.—The Tanana River between Nenana and Tanana, with Indian villages
To which Lieutenant Castner, who explored the upper Tanana, adds the following:[14] "On 750 miles of the Tanana proper and its tributaries I saw seven small hamlets, and not to exceed 100 Indians—men, women, and children."
From information obtained by me at Fairbanks, at the United States marshal's office and from miners, it appears that the following villages are better known:
- Village, 150 miles east of Fairbanks.
- Mansfield Lake village, 300 miles east of Fairbanks.
- Tetlen, 410 miles east of Fairbanks.
- East Tetlen, 7 miles southeast of Tetlen.
FOOTNOTES:
[13] Brooks, A. H., A Reconnaissance in the White and Tanana River Basins, Alaska, in 1898: Twentieth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv., 1900, pt. VII, p. 491.
[14] Castner, op. cit., p. 706.