S2:E12 - Hope City

2021-11-22

Hope City Stop me if you’ve heard this one. It’s a story about a King and his gold. A tale of a ghost town that was once the largest city in the territory. A drama with the speed and power of a cannonball. And it all takes place just 25 miles from Anchorage as the crow flies. Resources used to make this episode: Olthuis, Diane, 1999. Historic Building Survey Report: Hope, Alaska. Hope and Sunrise Historical Society, p. 38-40. Barry, M.J., 1973. A history of mining on the Kenai P...

Hope City

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. It’s a story about a King and his gold. A tale of a ghost town that was once the largest city in the territory. A drama with the speed and power of a cannonball. And it all takes place just 25 miles from Anchorage as the crow flies.

Resources used to make this episode:

Olthuis, Diane, 1999. Historic Building Survey Report: Hope, Alaska. Hope and Sunrise Historical Society, p. 38-40.

Barry, M.J., 1973. A history of mining on the Kenai Peninsula. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, p. p.31-32, 34, 37, 46, 49-50, 52-53.

Morgan, Albert W., & Buzzell, Rolfe G., 2013 (2nd Ed.). Memories of Old Sunrise: Gold Mining on Alaska’s Turnagain Arm. Cook Inlet Historical Society & Hope and Sunrise Historical Society, p. X-XIII.

Carlson, P.D. and Bill, L.D., 2006. Aunt Phil's Trunk: Up to 1900 (Vol. 1, 3rd ed.). Aunt Phil's Trunk, p. 148ff.

Bodett, Tom, 1985. As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport. Perseus Books, p. 118.

https://www.hopealaska.us/about-hope.html

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. 1985. The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton. London: Bodley Head, p 271.

Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma, p. 49.

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