Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
Single-engined bush planes began heading north across the Brooks Range to the Yukon Flats the next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...
...been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...
...Purpose. In Yukon, Okla., Leslie West advertised for sale: "12gauge shotgun . . . ideal for squirrels, rabbits, weddings...
Scanning the news services, Farm Editor Partridge read about a freak farm accident in Yukon, Okla. An angry 1,200-lb. Hereford (nicknamed Grady by a reporter) had charged Farmer Bill Mach. When Mach prudently sidestepped, Grady kept on going, right through a small feed-door (about the size of a Denver Post front page) in the side of a silo. For three days, while Grady placidly munched hay and grew fatter, Farmer Mach racked his brain for a way to get Grady out alive without tearing a hole in his silo...