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Highway was nearly engulfed by the West Fork blaze, which has been burning for more than a month; the flames were stopped just two miles out of town. In north central Alaska, a fire near Bear Mountain on the Koyukuk River was also diverted just short of the Eskimo village of Huslia, but it burned...
...organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun...
...miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals...
White wives are scarce in the Koyukuk. Of the two in Wiseman one has quit her husband, gone off to the creeks with a prospector. Eskimo wives are not frequently faithful. But the Arctic nights are long and a wife can be mighty useful. Putting on his Chachaqua "outside" clothes, leaving Alaska for the first time in 29 years, Martin Slisco, a U. S. citizen since 1929, went back to his childhood home in Jugoslavia last Christmas. He saw his mother for the first time in 40 years and went with her to the church, bride-hunting. He looked over...
...this week Martin Slisco's waiting had a happy ending. Red tape had finally been cut and down the gangplank of the Aquitania when it docked in Manhattan came dark-eyed Para Krka, ready to be installed as queen of the Koyukuk...