Resources

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• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• Alaska State Archives
  • Genealogy
  • Collection Guides
• Internet Archive
  • 1915 Willow Creek District by Stephen Reid Capps
  • 1975 The Frontier in Alaska and the Matanuska Colony by Orlando W. Miller
  • 1980? Welcome to Historic Wasilla
  • 2000 Frozen Shield by Nick Mangieri, former police chief tells his side of the story of governmental corruption in Palmer
  • 2003 Lavish Silence, a pictorial chronicle of vanished Curry, Alaska, a railroad community by Kenneth L. Marsh
  • Matanuska Historical Fiction Series by Bonnie Leon
    • 1994 Home At Last
    • 2001 Valley of Promises
    • 2002 Worthy of Riches
• 1977 An Historical Resource Study of the Valdez Creek Mining District, Alaska courtesy of University of Florida Digital Collections
• FindAGrave
• Interment.net
• MatSu Cemetery Information
• Talkeetna Cemetery burials
• HonorStates.org
  • James Perry Delaney
  • James T. Hedley
• US Department of Veterans Affairs National Gravesite Locator
• US Department of the Interior - Indian Affairs - Tracing Ancestry
• Alaska Department of Health & Welfare Vital Records
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• Online Historical Newspapers - by Miriam J. Robbins
• AncestorHunt
• National Register of Historic Places - Matanuska-Susitna Borough Alaska
• Historical Marker Database -   Balto,   Father of the Iditarod,   Iditarod Cabin
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Knik Alaska
• Matanuska Susitna Valley Pioneer Directory by Coleen (Walker) Mielke
• Alaska Historical Society

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Books (not yet available to read online at no cost)

Agriculture Matanuska-Susitna Borough by Gary Thurlow

Alaska Group Settlement: The Matanuska Valley Colony by Kirk Haskin Stone

Buildings of Alaska by Hoagland, Alison K. - Buildings of Alaska (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Frontier Physician: The Life and Legacy of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht Jordan, Nancy. (Fairbanks: Press, 1996), 222 p., paper, ISBN 0-945397-50-X, (Box 60529, Fairbanks, AK 99706, dist. By Graphic Arts Center Publishing, PO Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306). LC96-000627. Life story of a medical doctor who arrived in Alaska in the 1930s to serve the Matanuska Colony and went on to become a leader in the field of circumpolar health.

Heritage of Talkeetna Sheldon, Roberta. (Talkeetna: Talkeetna Editions, 1995), 185 p., paper, Box 292, Talkeetna, AK 99676. History of this southcentral Alaskan town told by a lifelong Alaskan who has lived there for thirty years. LC 96-144782.

Hunting for Gold in Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains, 1897-1951: With a Background Sketch of Alaska's Great Gold-Lode Camps Stoll, William M. (Ligonier, PA: The Author, 1997), 301 pp., paper, ISBN 0-9656212-0-0, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. LC96-092743. History of the mines and miners in the Talkeetna gold belt illustrated with maps, diagrams, and photographs.

Knik, Matanuska, Susitna: A Visual History of the Valleys Published/Created: [Palmer, Alaska : Matanuska-Susitna Borough], c1985. Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Notes: Vickie Cole, project coordinator and researcher; Pat O'Hara, writer; Ron Wendt, photographer. Bibliography: p. 225-228. Preview

Matanuska Valley Memoir: The story of how one Alaskan community developed by Hugh A Johnson

Our Home is Wasilla; The Story of the Lives of Pat and May Carter and the Growth of Wasilla, Alaska by Domonic "Nick" L. Carney

Matanuska-Susitna Borough. (Matanuska Valley, Alaska): An article from: Alaska Business Monthly by Robin Mackey Hill

River Between Us: The Upper Susitna River Valley of Alaska: a Historical Collection by Kenneth L. Marsh. Variant Title: Upper Susitna River Valley of Alaska Edition Information: 1st ed. Published/Created: Trapper Creek, AK : Trapper Creek Museum Sluice Box Productions, c2002. Related Names: Trapper Creek Museum Sluice Box Productions. Description: 268 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 21 cm. ISBN: 0971830207 Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-266).

The Matanuska Colony: Fifty years, 1935-1985 by Brigitte Lively

Wasilla: A Great Place Among the Lakes The Centennial History 1917-2017, by Skip Coghlan, contains many old photos and biographies for Adcock, Anderson, Behnke, Bergman, Betts, Bjorn, Blissard, Blodgett, Bogard, Borden, Browne, Byers, Cadwallader, Cannon, Carney, Carson, Carter, Cavanaugh, Church, Clark, Clarke, Chghlan, Combs, Cornelius, Cottle, Crocker, Dinkel, Doherty, Edlund, Erickson, Fabyan, Fleckenstein, Fritzler, Frydenlund, Garcia, Gershmel, Gislason, Grau, Gray, Gronwoldt, Gustafson, Hanson, Harbeson, Harman, Harrison, Hartman, Harvey, Hatcher, Heaven, Herning, Hubbard, Hjellen, Holstein, Hulke, Hurd, Isaacs, Jacobsen, Jensen, Johnson, Katkus, Kennedy, Klockenteger, Lander, Larsen, LaValley, Lemon, LePors, Liebing, Lincoln, Line, Lothrop, Marion, McCallister, McHenry, McNeil, Metz, Miller, Minnick, Mommsen, Morrison, Neal, Nelson, Newcomb, Nunley, Oberg, Ohnstad, Olsen, Olson, Osborne, Palmer, Palmquist, Paulson, Pearson, Peck, Polis, Rae, Redington, Robinette, Roth, Sager, Senske, Shough, Shrock, Slumberger, Smith, Snider, Soper, Spaulding, Stern, Stump, Swanson, Teeland, Theodore, Thomas, Thorpe, Tryck, Vail, Vickaryous, Wagner, Wasilla, Wilmoth, Wilson, Zink. Contact Norma to get a transcription or page copy of a biography.

We Shall Be Remembered by Atwood, Evangeline, (Anchorage: The Alaska Methodist University, 1966)

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