The Only Possible Route Rugged, remote, austere, breathtakingly beautiful and viciously inhospitable, the area spanned by the route of the Alcan Highway is unique in the world. Nature is a dictator, not a ‘mother’ in the North Country. The Highway threads through a vast expanse of raw nature with virtually no population. Alaska, alone, encompasses …
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The Only Possible Route
How on earth did they find the only possible route? Canada Used the Route Before the Corps Drive the Alaska Highway, look left or right virtually anywhere along it. You look down steep mountainsides, you look up steep mountainsides, you look out across trackless swamps, you look out into hundreds, maybe thousands, of miles of …
Sickness from Outsiders
Indians, First Nations, In the North Country Sickness from outsiders, nothing new to the people of the Great Subarctic North. Outsiders who came to the North Country always brought sickness. The first Nations suffered infectious diseases brought by white missionaries and trappers throughout the 19th century. Myriad bugs and germs rode north in the bodies …
Kidnap the Kids
Meeting the Inland Tlingits Kidnap the kids for their own good, government policy in the early 20th Century. At the biannual Inland Tlingit Celebration Chris and I have horned in at the head table—and got away with it. We came to meet Ida Calmegane, but two other elders share the head table with her. …
Meeting the Inland Tlingits
We met and got to experience the Inland Tlingits by luck, and by the grace of our friends Bonner and Bess Cooley. Preparing for a publicity trip to Canada and Alaska to coincide with the release of our book, We Fought the Road, we knew we would get to visit Teslin again and we called …