Word: sourdough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough Johnny Matson. who recalled her dollar-a-dance days, wooed her by mail from the Yukon. When Johnny died in 1947 she philosophized: "There's nothing left for me to do but mush on and keep smiling," married again a year later...
...times he came close to being nonplused. One of three Alaskan delegates- a small, weatherbeaten man named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...
Died. Hartley Clyde Myrick, 65, onetime sourdough who went north at 13, played the piano in Gold Rush saloons, was identified up & down the Yukon with "the kid that handles the music-box"** in Robert W. Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew; of cancer; in Seattle...
Another, Ernest Krinby, of Aniak, an old sourdough, admits that times have changed. He recalls that 20 years ago there were two mail deliveries a year by dog team, and that on those occasions you would "lock the door and read for a week." Now the mail plane arrives every day, weather permitting. Says he: "Civilization is creeping up on us. And," he adds, contrary to all literary expectations, "we are glad...