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Thanks very much for the wonderful boost you gave us (TIME, May 25, June 8). I am enclosing a copy of our paper [Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald]. I cannot resist thanking you again along with this paper, although I sent you a letter by last boat...
...Chitina, Alaska...
...fifteen or more years or his life. He has been missing since Christmas day. No traces of him have yet been seen. He lives right across from the old Indian village of Taral which has been battered down. It is about 4 or 5 miles down the track from Chitina, which is M. 131. The R. R. boys have very frequently seen him get his mail because he has to walk across the ice to the Railroad side of the river to get to his mail box. When he did not get his mail at Christmas they surely expected...
...down as they had wended up, through their advance camp on a ridge at 18,500 ft. down to a bivouac in Windy Camp, on down through the frosted portcullis of McCarthy Gap to the foot of King Col Massif, to Cascade (Alaska), to Ogilvie Glacier, to Walsh, to Chitina (where bears had robbed their food caches), to Trail End, to Kubrick...
Tired and sore of foot, they there constructed rafts of logs, planks, boxes, and essayed to float down the Chitina River to McCarthy. This feat one raft accomplished without let or hindrance from rock or snag. The other, skippered by Explorer McCarthy, capsized in boiling rapids, left its passengers a 70-mile trudge...