Editing Alaska Range (section)

==History==
The name "Alaskan Range" appears to have been first applied to these mountains in 1869 by naturalist [[W. H. Dall]]. The name eventually became "Alaska Range" through local use. In 1849 {{interlanguage link|Constantin Grewingk|de}} applied the name "Tschigmit" to this mountain range. A map made by the [[United States General Land Office]] in 1869 calls the southwestern part of the Alaska Range the "Chigmit Mountains" and the northeastern part the "Beaver Mountains".<ref name="name_from_bgn">Name history from the [http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html Board on Geographic Names] entry for the Alaska Range.</ref> However, the [[Chigmit Mountains]] are now considered part of the [[Aleutian Range]].

Starting in the mid-1880s to early 1900s, early non-native explorers traversed various sections of the Alaska Range. The first recorded expedition was in the Eastern Alaska Range led by [[Henry Tureman Allen|H. T. Allen]] in 1885. His team went from Suslota Lake to Tetlin Lake and unto the [[Tanana River]] via Miles Pass.<ref name= moffit>{{cite report |author-first1= Fred H. |author-last1=Moffit |date= 1954 |title= Geology of the eastern part of the Alaska Range and adjacent area|url= https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0989d/report.pdf |publisher= US Department of the Interior, Geological Survey |access-date= 17 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="Yukon">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-WsBum6UckC&q=Henry+Tureman+Allen+Yukon:+The+Last+Frontier&pg=PA106|title=Yukon: The Last Frontier|author=Webb, Melody|pages=106–109|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|year=1993|isbn=0-7748-0441-6}}</ref> He noted that it would be possible to build a road from [[Prince William Sound]] to the [[Yukon River]].<ref name= naske>{{cite report |last1=Naske |first1=Claus |title=Alaska Road Commission Historical Narrative |date= June 1983 |publisher=State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities |url=https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40615/dot_40615_DS1.pdf}}</ref> Six years later, [[Frederick Schwatka]] and Charles W. Hayes crossed the extreme eastern end of the range via the [[White River (Yukon)|White River]] and into the [[Copper River (Alaska)|Copper River]] basin through Skolai Pass in what is now called [[Saint Elias Mountains]]. In 1898, [[Walter Curran Mendenhall|W. C. Mendenhall]] and [[Edwin Forbes Glenn|E. F. Glenn]] traversed Isabel Pass and were within 15–20 miles of the Tanana River before turning around.<ref name=moffit/> Separately, that same year, [[Robert Muldrow]] and George Homans Eldridge crossed [[Broad Pass, Alaska|Broad Pass]] then Windy Pass into the [[Nenana River]] valley.<ref name=broad>{{cite report |author-first1= Fred H. |author-last1=Moffit|date= 1916 |title = Broad Pass Region, Alaska |url= https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0608/report.pdf| publisher=United States Geological Survey}}</ref>