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...done it? Merk, it was said, had employed a brawny Eskimo guide named Owtaluk, a native of Kodiak, to drive him to class in a sled drawn by a dozen Eskimo dogs...
Owtaluk, it was reported, lived in an apartment over Merk's garage with his wife, Nosuchluk. The two Eskimos arrived in Belmont each November and stayed until the following spring when they and their dogs returned to Kodiak...
Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...
...exodus from Nome was only part of a process by which Alaskan military commanders were getting ready for trouble. The command had taken great pains to rehearse the evacuation of wives & children of servicemen. At Kodiak, women & children had been tagged, checked off big lists, and marched to the waterfront in a driving rain to test the evacuation plan. At Fairbanks, Big Delta, Shemya and Adak, they had hurried to airfields with their baggage...
...cast, a shricking and billous individual who will undoubted drive his canine assistants to the A.S.P.C.A.. The chorus line is a fine group of young ladies when at ease, but when in motion these girls seem to be giving a mass imitation of the mating dance of the Kodiak bear...