Wrangell Mountains

Over the next two days I’ll attend a field-sketching workshop taught by the science illustrator and natural history artist Kristin Link through the Wrangell Mountains Center.

The former general store, which now houses the Wrangell Mountains Center, is also a McCarthy original.

His big moment came in 1906, following reports of a fabulous copper discovery on a high summit ridge in the Wrangell Mountains.

In the summer of 1977, two years after that first long-distance call, having negotiated the initial Doze homestead settlement, Paul Barrett finally flew to the Wrangell Mountains to see the family secret for himself.

Swindlers were trying to steal the family’s ghost town in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains.