Word: susitna
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...days of dazzling brightness were coming at last. From the Susitna River valley, 100 miles north of Anchorage, the settlers could see breathtaking Mount McKinley and the whole Alaska range. Moose tracks appeared in the slushy tops of the frozen lakes, and there were beaver tracks and the tracks of the beaver trappers. Running water broke through the melting surface of the wide, twisting Susitna, and vehicular traffic was warned to keep off. The yawns of spring were cracking the frozen vastnesses of Alaska...
...people in the Susitna valley, the last whines of winter had special meaning: it was just a year since 37 pioneers from Michigan-the well-publicized "Fifty-Niners"-arrived in the pioneer country to hack out a new life for themselves (TIME, May 11). Some of their number have gone home discouraged; others have moved to the cities; a few staked out homesteads in other valleys. Along the Susitna remained only 13 undismayed pioneers and their children...