This issue includes the story of W. A. Dickey, the man who renamed Denali in 1896. He wrote: “On the clearing up of the weather we obtained our first good view of the great mountain, occasional glimpses of which we had had before, the first from near Tyonick, where we saw its cloudlike summit over Sushitna Mountain. This mountain is far in the interior from Cooks Inlet, and almost due north of Tyonick. All the Indians of Cooks Inlet call it the ‘Bulshoe’ Mountain, which is their word for anything very large.”
Also in this issue: The history of Deering; an excerpt from G. O. Young’s classic ‘Alaska Yukon Trophies Won and Lost,’ about a hunting party traveling to McCarthy 1919; the Iditarod Trail and its proximity and relationship to Anchorage; the story of Moosemeat John Hedberg, who homesteaded near Kenai and became an Alaskan legend; and an excerpt from L.H. French’s book, Nome Nuggets: Some of the experiences of a party of gold seekers in northwestern Alaska in 1900.
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