Oscar Bredlie speaks with Jane
Williams and the Circle City-Fairbanks Trail Research Group
about...
1)Introduction.
Bredlie, Oscar - history\ wage earning\ Alaska Road
Commission\ Fox\ Steese Highway\ Smith, Whitehorse\ Nash,
Frank\ Young, Frank\ Bredlie, Oscar - brother\ wage earning
- summer\ Twelve Mile Summit\ camp - gravel|
2)
Construction of the Steese
Highway.
Roadhouse - Twelve Mile \ road - building\ equipment used -
horses\ winter - trail\ equipment used - Fresno Scraper\
Steese Highway - construction\ Model T Ford|
3)
Construction of the Steese Highway
continued.
O'Leary, Maurice\ Jewell, Wilbur\ Steese Highway -
freighting\ road surface\ Circle\ road surface - gravel\
gravel - source\ camp - gravel|
4)
Freighting Chatanika to
Circle.
Roman, Walter\ mail - carrying\ summer - trail\ winter -
trail\ trail - swamp country\ road - swamp\ road - crooked\
Palm, Johnny\ wage earning - freighting\ freight -
passengers\ freight - mail\ Chatanika\ Tanana Valley
Railroad|
5)
Freighting Chatanika to Circle
continued.
Palm, Johnny\ mail contract\ mail run - Chatanika to Circle\
mail run - Circle to Eagle\ De Wolf, Percy\ freight
headquarters - Central\ summer - travel\ steamboat - down
river\ steamboat - upriver|
6)
Being stranded on Eagle
Summit.
Steamboat - Casca\ steamboat - Yukon\ Snow Goose\ rugged
wilderness - tourist\ winter - trail\ Eagle Summit\ Eagle
Summit - travelers\ Eagle Summit - spring|
7)
Roadhouses on the
trail.
Roadhouse - Cassiar\ Roadhouse - Central\ Miller, Frank\
Miller, Graziella\ Roadhouse - Belle Creek\ Palm, Johnny\
freighting - horses\ Nelson\ Roadhouses - distance apart\
travel - distance\ Roadhouse - Faith Creek|
8)
Roadhouses continued.
Roadhouse - Faith Creek\ bachelor\ roadhouse - menu\
roadhouses - placement\ Hennigar, Ike\ Road Commission\
gravel - crew\ Herring, Alice\ Eagle Creek\ trail - winter\
telephone line|
9)
Roadhouses continued.
C.J. Berry Company\ Berry Camp\ roadhouse - unofficial\
trail - placement\ weather\ horses - care of\ horses - gunny
sacks\ Miller House\ hospitality\ hospitality - clean\
Miller, Mrs.\ President Harding|
10)
Freight run from Miller House to Central to Circle Hot
Springs.
Tamura, Mamie\ alcohol - brewing \ alcohol - consumption\
Ericksen, Riley\ Miller House\ Central\ Circle Hot Springs\
mail run|
11)
Circle Hot Springs.
Leach, Frank\ Leach, Mrs.\ Berdahl\ Cacy, Bob\ airplane -
arrival\ Leach, Frank\ teetotaler\ alcohol|
12)
Circle Hot Springs
continued.
Leach, Frank\ alcohol - sale of\ Circle Hot Springs -
investment\ garden\ garden - hot water\ underground pipes\
Leach, Emma\ Fort Yukon\ palsy\ Zurik, Dr.\ Haggland, Dr.\
delivery - Jane Williams' son|
13)
Circle Hot Springs
continued.
Zurik, Dr.\Circle Hot Springs - change hands\ Zurik, Dr. -
license\ Zurik, Dr. - wife\ pills - making|
14)
Circle City.
Rasmussen, Mrs.\ cabin - sale\ Rasmussen, Nels\ telephone\
lumber\ Jump Off\ Roadhouse - Birch Creek\
Wickersham|
15)
Roadhouses.
Bolgen, Johnny\ Rieger, Mervin\ Rieger, Mervin - father\
Dawson\ Rieger, Mervin - mother\ Roadhouse - Birch Creek\
Roadhouse - Eight Mile\ Rasmussen, Nels|
16)
Circle City.
Postmaster - store keeper\ N.C. Co.\ Ball, Bill\ Night,
George\ Eagle\ ACS\ Circle\ travel - accommodations\
Rasmussen\ Peterson\ Boyle\ Bowers|
17)
Central.
travel\ Central\ Circle Hot Springs\ dogs\ horses\
accommodations\ O'Leary\ Jewell\ Stade\ Ericksen, Riley\
Knutsen, Big Nick\ Central - cemetery\ trail - winter\
Kennedy, Tom\ Diamond\ Langlow, Jens\ Eagle Creek\ Miller
House\ Lake, Johnny\ Rivard, Jerry\ mail -
carrying|
18)
Johnny Lake.
Lake, Johnny\ mail - importance\ Bartlett, Bob\ Alaska Road
Commission\ Ellingen, Casper\ Lake, Johnny - well read\
Lake, Johnny - labor movement|
19)
Mail run from Central to
Chatanika.
Miller House\ Eagle Creek\ Roadhouse - Twelve Mile\ over
night stops\ travel - times\ Roadhouse - Belle Creek\
Mammoth Creek - relief cabin\ Chatanika|
20)Tanana
Valley Railroad.
railroad - riding\ railroad - access\ Fox Gulch\ Ridge top\
F.E. Co.\ Gilmore Station\ closing|
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