Word: sourdoughs
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...cage one frozen night in White Horse, he knocked out a raw, rollicking ballad called The Shooting of Dan McGrew, modestly tucked it away in his shirt drawer, months later, in 1907, sent it to a Toronto publisher of church hymnals with a slender assortment of other sourdough rhymes. The story goes that the typesetters swung into a dance as they locked it in the forms...
Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...
...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...