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...spare time built the Queen Beaver, a 19-ft. canoe made of Sitka spruce and canvas. In July 1942 they shipped the Queen north to Fairbanks, loaded her with $93 worth of canned foods and sacks of beans and flour, pushed off down the Yukon's Tanana tributary. The great river, first explored by Russians and men of the Hudson's Bay Company, rises in Canada's Yukon Territory and flows north west 2,300 miles into the Bering Sea. Bud and Connie planned to course down to within 200 miles of its delta...
Everyone knew the big day had come. The excitement even awakened the Male-mutes that snooze on the boardwalk before the town's false-front stores. There was open water under the big railroad bridge half a mile upstream; that meant the Tanana River jam was breaking...
...TANANA ICE BREAKS" gets blacker type in the Fairbanks News-Miner than a 2,000-plane raid on Germany. The Ice Pool is big business. Since it is a lottery and cannot use the mails, ballots are flown or mushed by dog team to remote settlements. Since February, as for 27 years past, thousands of Alaskans have guessed the day, hour and minute that the ice would break, backed their hunches at $1 a throw. Last week eleven tickets (at $10,000 each) tied for the winning minute...
...trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub lic mind. Travel-starved citizens dreamed of the day when they, too, might wheel the family sedan through Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, past Kluane Lake and Tanana (pronounced Ta´na naw) Crossing...
Good start to a system of military fields through the main body of Alaska is the airport system of Pan Am's sourdough subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...