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This time it's strong John Wayne, who owns the gold mine, v. Randolph Scott, who doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...
...boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...
From Seattle they took a steamer to Nome. There they bought prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...
...sank his whole inheritance in boomtown lots in Seattle. He listened eagerly to tales of a gold strike in the Klondike. He headed north. In the Klondike he was soon chopping wood for a living. Chasing whispers of gold in Alaska, Pittman mushed over the snow wastelands to Nome, to find that the tough guys were running affairs. But vigilantes took over, and Key Pittman got his first real job: he became Nome's first prosecuting attorney. By 1901 he had absorbed just enough law to give him a belief he always cherished: that laws, unless constantly amended...
...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...