Alaskan History
Ed and Belle Lee’s Talkeetna Trading Post, which served miners from the Cache Creek Mining Area
The Cache Creek Murders An Unsolved Mystery from 1939 The highest mountain peak in North America, Denali—The High One—lies just north of the Cache Creek Mining District, and as the foothills of the great massif roll down into the upper Susitna Valley, the Dutch Hills and the Peters Hills offer the last two prominences of notable size. This is a vast wild country, bordered by swift rushing rivers and crossed by tributary streams such as Peters Creek and Cache Creek. The area is prime grizzly bear habitat, remote and isolated, generally accessible in summer by four wheel drive or a cautious driver with good clearance; in winter only by snowmachine or airplane. Cache Creek was likely named for a storage cache built by a Dena’Ina Indian known as Susitna Pete, who found gold in the area near the turn of the century. Peters Creek and the hills around the fast rushing stream were named for Henry Peters, who prospected in the area in 1905 with several others when they heard about Susitna Pete’s discovery. Peters and his friends
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