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...Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University of Alaska. One day last week Cap Lathrop sailed out of Puget Sound for Alaska again, to launch the latest and most...
...Among topflight U. S. letter-writing writers have long been Henry Adams, Henry James, John Hay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Last week readers who could spare the price could look at all the Emerson letters they were ever likely to want, in six good-looking, gilt and salmon-pink volumes. Of these letters, claims Editor Ralph Leslie Rusk, 2,313 have never been printed before...
...paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing for $250 each. Even Derrydale's tenth anniversary catalogue is published in a limited edition: 950 copies at $3.50 a copy. A student claims to have worked her way through Vassar speculating on the rise in Derrydale publications...
...Charles Phair, heir to a Maine starch fortune, wrote Derrydale's most expensive book, Atlantic Salmon Fishing (hand-illustrated, $250). His only literary work, it was mostly rewritten by Publisher Connett. To sportsmen, Charles Phair is a potent name. At 63, he has killed over 5,000 salmon...
...Horn Mountains. North it flows, joined by Salt Creek, Dugout Creek, Pumpkin Creek, Wild Horse Creek and Crazy Woman Creek. Bitterly alkaline, mushy with quicksand, flanked for 100 miles by badlands, Powder River is nothing compared with such rushing beauties as the Feather, the Snake, the Salmon...