Person:Andrew Kokrine (1)

Andrew took over the trading post at Kokrines after his father died in 1898.

Phillip Albert, Jr. in his M.S. thesis "The History of Kokrines and Ruby Along the Yukon River" said that the trader at Kokrines lost the post in a gambling game. He did not name the trader nor give a date.

In "Shadows on the Koyukuk" Sidney Huntington writes (p82) about a trip in 1927; "Tony Kokrines, a Tanana-born Indian who hauled mail from Tanata to Wiseman on a government contract, had gone through with his big dog team, headed for the Koyukuk. As we traveled, I learned the history of the mail route from the people we encountered along the trail and from evening talk. The Koyukuk mail run by winter trail began in 1906. Bob Buchanan was the first to fulfill the monthly mail contract from Tanana to Wiseman. Ed Allard hauled mail for the next eight years, then John Adams for the following four years. Next, trader Andy Vachon of Tanana won the contract and sublet it to old man Kokrines. He and his sons Anthony, Andrew and Bergman Kokrines hauled the last of the mail by dog team over that trail. After that, about 1930 or 1931, the airplane took over. I knew all these drivers except the earliest, Bob Buchanan."

Andrew Kokrine is the "Old Man Kokrines" in this quotation.