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Julie Stricker

Julie Stricker

Julie Stricker graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida and in 1991 began a career in newspaper and freelance writing in Alaska. She has worked for the Anchorage Times, the Anchorage Daily News, and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. She also has been a contributor to Alaska Magazine and Alaska Business Monthly. She currently resides in Fairbanks, Alaska, and since 2008 has been the Online Content Director for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper. While working on a master's degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she became interested in Falcon Joslin, one of the founders of the Tanana Valley Railroad, about whom she has researched and written an article titled "Falcon Joslin: Empire Dreams." For more about Julie Stricker, see her personal website, The Subarctic Scribbler.
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Interview Title Abstract Archive #: Oral History Project Date of Interview
Julie Stricker

This is a recording of Julie Stricker giving a presentation titled "Falcon Joslin” on February 9, 2010 at the Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad’s monthly "Rail Stories" public lecture series held at the Tanana Valley Railroad Train Museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is introduced by the organization's president, Dan Osborne. In this presentation, Julie talks about Falcon Joslin, the founder of the Tanana Valley Railroad. She discusses his personality, his personal background, and his work starting the railroad and being an entrepreneur around Alaska during the early 1900s. She also mentions his deep-seated feud with Judge James Wickersham in the early days of Fairbanks. Julie's presentation is based on a paper she wrote about Falcon Joslin titled "Falcon Joslin: Empire Dreams." Photographs from the Falcon Joslin Collection at the Alaska and Polar Region Collections and Archives at the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks can be viewed on-line at the Alaska Digital Archives website.

 2010-02-02 Railroads of Alaska Feb 9, 2010