Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still making films out of Rex Beach's stories. This one, like the rest, is complicated, violent, highly naive: the nobility of the hero is 100% and so is the villainy of the villains. The theme of the picture is the struggle of opposing interests for control of the Yukon salmon fisheries. It contains a few great sequences: the beautiful silver hordes of fish whirling down the river and lifted, struggling, into the fishing boats out of the heavy nets...
Retired. Rev. John W. Chapman, D.D., 72, Episcopal missionary, explorer, ethnologist; after 43 years among Alaskan Indians at Anvik on the Yukon where he will be succeeded by his son, H. H. Chapman (first white man born on the Yukon...
Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
...newspaper, made many friends, many enemies. At Osage's first church service, held in Arkansas Grafs tent-saloon, Yancey killed his chief rival. The newspaper prospered; Yancey lost interest in it. One day he disappeared; when he came back five years later with breath-taking tales of the Yukon, Osage City was on its feet; his family no longer needed him. From time to time he disappeared; Sabra, industrious, civic-minded, became the town's solid first citizen, Yancey its stirring legend. Hard-drinking, straight-shooting, impulsive, un- reliable, Yancey had wanted to build Utopia on the Oklahoma prairie...
...temperature of 40 below zero is not enough to cool the gold fever. Last week gold was struck in Poorman, Alaska, 50 miles south of Ruby on the Yukon River. Sergeant William N. Growden, U.S.A., obtained an Indian guide and dog team, proceeded from Ruby to Poorman, wired a report to the War Department. Excerpts: "RICHEST GOLD STRIKE IN HISTORY THIS CAMP. . . . EVERY MAN IN WHOLE VICINITY THAT CAN GET TRANSPORTATION . . . IS GOING OR GONE. . . . TEMPERATURE STILL 40 BELOW ZERO. BROKE PIECES FROM GROUND VARIOUS SECTIONS; HELD PAN WITH DIRT INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER TO THAW OUT, THEN PANNED...