Coming to Alaska 
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Coming to Alaska 
Click on a section below to hear Doris Southall talk about coming to Alaska.
5) Marriage and coming to Alaska.
- Southall, John/ son/ husband -- killed/ staff nurse/ Alaska/ family/ Whitehorse/ Skagway/ bakery -- oldest brother opened it/ equipment -- bakery/ Fairbanks/ mom/ brother/ visits/ brother -- principal of Main High School/ Catholic schools|
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Click on a section below to hear James Hutchison talk about coming to Alaska.
Army/ Haines/ Valdez/ home guards/ Vancouver Barracks/ 21st Infantry/ Seattle -- shipped from/ Ketchikan/ Juneau/ Valdez -- shipped to/ summertime -- July 1919/ Gulf of Alaska/ getting sick|
August 1919/ personnel -- getting acquainted/ singing -- quartet/ entertaining -- people on boats/ Alyeska/ military post/ freight -- unloading/ Valdez -- putting on show/ Donaldson/ bootleggers/ Bay -- froze up/ military post -- returning to it|
3) Cutting ice out of the Bay and leaving the service.
Alagonkin -- ice cutter/ Higgins/ Matson, Helen -- wife/ marriage/ service -- discharged/ Fairbanks/ railroad/ Nenana|
traveling -- by train/ Seward/ Curry/ roadhouse/ Nenana/ fishcamp/ Fairbanks/ Nordale/ cabin -- rented on 6th Street/ work/ Sampson Hardware/ airplane --Sir Hubert Wilkens/airplane -- busted up/ field -- Gaffney and Cushman/ Sears Robuck Building/ airplanes/ tri-motor/ engines|
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Nenana -- birth/ moving -- 1937/ Alford, Laura -- schoolteacher/ Charlie, Sam/ David, Lawrence/ houses -- burnt down/ Luke, Stephen -- brother/ family -- reason why they moved here/ Nenana -- tough living/ furs -- scarce/ moose -- scarce/ meat -- jerk/ moose -- finding|
2) Food storage and coming to Fairbanks.
meat -- preserving/ holes -- digging/ fish heads/ birch bark/ fox farm/ mink ranch/ work -- searching for/ Charlie, Sam/ homestead -- how they got it/ Dad/ Seward/ groceries|
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1) Introduction and coming to Alaska.
Stockton, CA/ truck driver/ streets/ church/ store -- credit/ groceries/ money -- making|
California -- leaving/ working -- around the clock/ working -- construction/ ticket -- borrowed money/ Weeks Field/ work -- carpenter|
3) Reverend Parham comes to Alaska and his wife remains behind.
store -- managed/ children -- three girls/ store -- closed down/ communication -- Alaska, California/ writing letters/ family -- bringing up to Alaska/ house -- building/ 21st Street/ street -- building|
Schools -- opened up/ Nenana/ nurses -- getting in touch with/ Hunter School/ trucks/ beds/ Red Cross/ Brooks, Irene -- Red Cross worker/ clothing/ Barnett School/ water -- coming in/ Denali School/ batteries/ foodland/ Cushman Street/ 14th Street|
13) Fairbanks flood continued.
Home -- had to leave/ Mrs. Bailey/ Lathrop/ water level -- rising/ Cushman and Airport/ radio/ Murphy, Jack/ Fort Wainwright/ St. Joseph's patients/ nurse's home/ Shouldis, Dolores|
14) Fairbanks flood continued.
Nurse's home -- water entering/ waking up/ Colonel Smith/ helicopter/ hospital/ Lathrop -- ride to|
15) Fairbanks flood continued.
Dolores/ Denali School/ Lathrop School/ Brooks, Irene/ Doctor Weaver/ medical supplies/ Commissioner of Health and Social Services/ Public Health nurses/ donations -- clothing/ children -- sent to Anchorage/ Church -- took families in|
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23) Planting crops and the flood.
oats/ barley/ harvesting/ meat/ Fairbanks/ getting ready/ water -- at house/ flood -- telling everyone|
24) What happened to the family when the flood came.
helicopter/ water/ scared/ boat -- bring back to house/ helicopter -- picking them up/ dogs -- some drowned/ animals/ school -- evacuated to/ hotel -- stayed in/ food -- hauling|
25) The flood and coming back home.
homestead -- returning to/ Hunter School/ Ryan School/ homestead house -- two story/ damage/ insurance/ Main Junior High/ food -- pickup|
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Territory of Alaska/ Cushman Street/ land -- getting/ land -- homestead/ acres/ land -- working it/ Stockton, CA/ debt/ Fairbanks -- you can make lots of money|
money -- need it/ shipyard/ small plane -- took to Fairbanks/ opportunity/ Mrs. Parham's parents -- homesteaded in Arkansas/ parents -- ten children/ property -- try to won/ homesteading -- Alaska/ Big Delta -- first tried homesteading/ timber -- big|
9) Homesteading and making money.
Fairbanks -- small timber/ making money/ Chicago/ Detroit/ parents -- listening to/ marriage -- leaving after/ construction work/ bank account/ own boss/ money -- in your pocket/ store/ preaching/ getting established|
10) Leaving Big Delta and moving to North Pole.
Wainwright/ Moose Creek -- homesteading/ 160 acres|
11) Building a house on the homestead and getting the children to school.
house -- building/ homesteading/ moving into house/ children -- busing to school|
12) Getting the children to school.
protection -- learning to shoot/ Whitey and Vista -- dogs/ Badger road/ children -- go on bus/ rifle/ homesteading -- families/ McCormicks -- friends with eight children/ food -- sharing/ road -- built together|
13) Getting electricity on the homestead.
GVEA/ McCormick -- neighbors/ Golden Valley/ electricity -- monthly payments/ power plant/ bed springs -- homemade contraption to get power|
14) What kind of animals were on the homestead and what kind of crops were planted.
animals -- hogs, chickens, rabbits, goats/ barley oats/ homestead requirements -- grow crops/ fruit -- sold/ lettuce/ greens/ potatoes/ cabbage/ corn -- never generated/ cucumber/ experimenting with different crops|
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13) Mail trails and dog racing.
dogteams/ Nenana/ Gold King/ Shake, Charlie/ Cooney, Mike/ dogs/ skiis/ Fagen, Kerry/ dogs -- trying them out/ riding/ leader/ racing/ Peterson, Tom/ North American -- won in 1947/ Cockrane, Andy/ competition|
Carroll, Tom/ Fort Yukon/ Butler, Jake/ Kokrine, Andy/ Titus, Charlie/ Paul, Herman -- the Ironman/ racing -- all four days/ Howard -- sick/ doctor/ dog handler/ Fur Rondevous -- 1952|
15) Dog racing and being ill at the race.
running/ Curry, Toll/ Dimitiv, Nick/ Pfieffer, Dave/ pneumonia/ tuberculosis/ hospital|
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Yukon 800 -- won in 1965/ Anderson, Johnny/ race -- Ruby and back/ racing -- getting started/ river -- knowledge/ races -- short/ Nenana|
Yukon/ Galena/ gas up/ race -- non-stop/ fire/ Manley Hot Springs/ trees -- used as markers/ Yukon River/ markers|