Word: baranof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West has its Rose Bowl, the South its Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sun Bowl (all played on New Year's Day). Last week Alaska jumped into the bowl business, 38 days early. Juneau citizens staged a Gold Bowl game between the Alaska Sourdoughs and the Baranof Bears, partly for charity, partly to encourage football among Alaskans...
...Alaska, 195 mi. up the winding Copper River Valley, is Kennecott, a raw mining town sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley...
...from Sportsman White admitting he was technically incorrect in stating that all protection had been removed from Alaska's bears. He then analyzed what the "protection" amounted to: a closed season between June 20 and Sept. 1 on five small islands (not including large Kodiak, Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof islands, the bears' principal homes) and on small sectors of the mainland...