Ketchikan
Americannoun
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Black Bear Express – We celebrated our wedding anniversary during our first visit to Ketchikan, and we were determined to see black bears.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025
Or you could head to the cruise terminal and catch a ferry to Ketchikan via the Alaska Marine Highway System.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
According to an unrelated Bione.org study , the first recorded outbreak of gull-linked salmonella occurred in 1959 and was recorded in North America in Ketchikan.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, Jackson Polys would help his father, the prominent Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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