Allen hasselborg homestead

After a decade of commercial bear hunting, Hasselborg settled in Mole Harbor on Admiralty Island and began clearing a homestead.!

Bear hunter, guide, and early 20th century Southeast Alaska homesteader Allen Hasselborg logged the temperature, rainfall and weather at Mole Harbor, on.

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After a decade of commercial bear hunting, Hasselborg settled in Mole Harbor on Admiralty Island and began clearing a homestead.

Allen Hasselborg came into Juneau only a few times a year.

Homestead for $3, Although Smith now owned the homestead, he offered to let Hasselborg stay as long as he liked.

“Bear Man of Admiralty Island”

Chapter 1: Hasselborg’s Domain

Allen Hasselborg came into Juneau only a few times a year. To visit him, you had to go by boat seventy miles south to his homestead at Mole Harbor, a secluded bay near the middle of Admiralty Island.

Even when you were safely past the reefs at the mouth of the harbor, if the tide was low, a mile of shallow water still lay between you and his cabin. So you anchored up and cut the engine and the island came out to greet you with the liquid, spiraling call of a varied thrush, the salty stench of seaweed, the dark green forest looming behind the beach.

As you rowed in to shore, you would become aware of Hasselborg standing waiting for you at the edge of the water, a rifle cradled in one arm.

The rifle made you nervous, especially if you hadn’t met him before. Though he owned about a hundred acres at the head of the bay, everyone in town knew that all of Mole Harbor was Hasselborg’s doma