Template:Joe Juneau or Richard Harris

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His Native American guide in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee. Kowee is credited with discovering much of the Juneau area. {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} were sent with Kowee by George Pilz, an entrepreneur from Sitka. {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} traded with the natives much of their grubstake (rations) for hoochinoo (alcoholic brews). Needless to say, the prospectors accomplished nothing. When they returned to Pilz empty-handed, he promptly sent them back to the Juneau area. There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek (which today flows beside the city's United States Federal Building[1]) to Silver Bow Basin. Today, a creek on Douglas Island is named Kowee Creek.

After the discovery of gold in Juneau, {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} loaded approximately 1,000 pounds of gold ore back to Sitka.