Alex McDonald (prospector) Alex McDonald (prospector) Alexander "Big Alex" McDonald (1859–1909) was a Canadian gold prospector who made (and lost) a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush, earning himself the title "King of the Klondike". The son of Scottish immigrants, McDonald was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He was an unsuccessful prospector, having tried his luck in the Colorado gold fields, before heading to the gold rush in Juneau, Alaska, in the late 1880s. In 1895 or 1896, he was in the Yukon, employed by the Alaska Commercial Company at Forty-Mile to buy mining properties. Gold was discovered in the region in 1897.
Michael J. Juneau Michael J. Juneau Michael Joseph Juneau (born June 29, 1962) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Juneau was born on June 29, 1962, in Monroe, Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Science, "magna cum laude", from Louisiana State University and his Juris Doctor, "cum laude", from Harvard Law School, where he was selected as the best oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. As a lawyer at his Lafayette-based litigation firm Juneau David, he handled a broad range of civil litigation in state and federal courts across Louisiana.