Lerdahl, Herman
Literary Digest
Little Peter from Hog River. See Weaselheart
Little Sammy
Little William
Livingston, Dick
Loft, Oscar
Lolee-ann (Koyukon chief)
Mack, Augie
mail, delivery in early 1900s
mail teams. See dogs, sled
Main, Phil
Malakof (Russian creole)
mammals. See also bear, black; bear, brown; beaver; moose; wolf
caribou
Dall sheep
lynx
marten
mink
muskrat
porcupine
rabbit (snowshoe hare)
wolverine
marriage, in the Koyukuk tradition
McKinley, Mount. See Denali
medicine men
missionaries
missions
Monkey John
moose
arrive in Koyukuk
best skin from pregnant cow
charges Weaselheart
description
first seen by author
found dead in Koyukuk
hunting of
importance to Koyukon people
Indian use of
killed with bow and arrow
numbers reduced by wolves
size of
tanning of moosehide (see tanning)
year of greatest abundance in Koyukuk
mosquitoes
Mount Edgecumbe (Native school)
Mountain, Charlie
Mountain, Cosmos
Mountain, Vivian
Mudhen (mail plane)
mushrooms
music (Koyukon fiddlers)
Napoleon (Indian)
near-death escapes by author
in Koyukuk River
in beaver slough
No Man’s Land
Northern Commercial Company
northern lights. See aurora borealis
Norton Sound
Notti, Joe
Nulato massacre
Old Harry
Old Mama (author’s grandmother)
Old Toby
Oldman, Abraham
Oldman, Johnny
Oldman, Kitty
Olin (Koyukon chief)
On the Edge of Nowhere (Jimmy Huntington)
overflow
Patsy, Toby
Patsy, Tom
Paul, Raymond
Pelican No.
permafrost
perpetual motion machine
pike
Pilgrims
Pilot, Andrew
Pitka, Andrew
Pitka, Terry
plastic man
poling (of canoe)
potatoes, planting of
potlatch
prohibition
ptarmigan
Purcell Mountains
raven
Regan, Eliza (also Eliza Attla)
Regan, Ned
rivers
Alatna
Anvik
Batza
Dakli
Dulbi
Hog (also called Hogatzakaket and Hogatza)
Huslia
Kateel
Kobuk
Koyukuk
Melozitna
Nulato
Pah
Selawik
Tanana
Tozitna
Yuki
Yukon
Romig, Dr. Howard
Rossi, Father
Rowe, Bishop Peter Trimble
Russell, Pop (trader)
Russian contact
Russian traders
Rutzebeck, Hans
Sackett, Jack
Sackett, John (senator)
Sakeroni. See Old Harry
salmon
building processing plant for
building smoking plant for
catching in fish wheel
catching in Yukon
caught by Indians in traps
decomposed, for eating
overfished by Indians
run in Koyukuk
Saturday Evening Post
Schilikuk (Eskimo trader)
school boards
schooling, of rural Alaskans
Senif (revenuer)
Serum Run
Seventy-mile Cabin
Seward Peninsula
Shade, Ole
sight, author's loss of
Simon, Andrew
Simon, Edwin
Siwash
derivation
fighting words
survival siwashing in winter
snow machine
snowshoes
built by author
built by Eklutna John
rigged backward
Sommers, Bill
Sommers, John C.
Sommers, Johnny
songs (Koyukon)
Sophy Sam
spear, making of, for hunting grizzly bear
St. John’s-in-the-Wilderness
stick dance (Nulato)
Stickman, Don
Stickman, Joe
Stickman, Lily
Stickman, Lucy
Stuck, Hudson
Sun Mountain
supplies, for winter trapping
surveying
Swanson, Charlie
tanning, moosehide
Teddy H.
telegraph line
Thanksgiving, origin of
thermometer
Tilley, John
Titus, Matthew
tlaabaas (Native knife)
Tobuk, David
trapping
economics of
traps (fish)
tuberculosis
ulu (Eskimo knife)
United Smelting and Refining Company
Utopia Creek
Vachon, Andy
Valdez
Vent, Bobby
Vernetti, Dominic
Vernetti, Ella
villages
Alatna
Allakaket
Anvik
Arctic City
Candle
Cutoff
Eagle
Galena
Holy Cross
Hughes
Huslia
Kaltag
Kobuk
Kokrines
Koyukuk Station (also called
Koyukuk)
Louse Point
Marshall
Moses Village
Nenana
Nome
Nulato
Rampart
Ruby
St. Michaels
Shageluk
Tanana
Tyonek
Wiseman
violin (made by author)
Vixen,
waterfowl
Weaselheart
whipsaw
White, Sam
whitefish
Whitney-Fidalgo Packing Company
wildlands, home to Koyukon people
wildlife, abundance in Koyukuk
Wingfield, Ernie
Wolasatux
wolf
attacks child
description of
Eskimo tale of
family swims Yukon River
first in Koyukuk
killed in Koyukuk by aerial hunt
Koyukon attitude toward
policy of federal government
policies of state
relationship to prey
shot by author
trapped by Gilbert Huntington
use of furs
Young Toby
Youth Corp program
Zane Hills
ABOUT SIDNEY HUNTINGTON
Half-Athapaskan Sidney Huntington, born in 1915, grew up in the Koyukuk River country of Northern Alaska, a region that most Americans consider frontier wilderness. In his early years, birchbark canoes, dog teams, and paddlewheel steamers were the primary modes of tra
nsportation. His Koyukon Athapaskan mother died when he was five, after which he lived at a Yukon River mission. Later, he attended the Bureau of Indian Affairs School at Eklutna, Alaska.
When he was twelve, he joined his father on a trapline. Home was a log cabin, and the Huntingtons lived mostly off the land. He was on his own at sixteen, trapping and selling furs, hunting and fishing for food, and annually growing a vegetable garden.
During his adventurous life, Huntington has learned the habits of wolves, moose, caribou, and other Koyukuk wildlife. Living in the wilds, he has had many narrow escapes, including a close call from a charging bear. He used his knowledge of wildlife when he served for twenty years as a member of the Alaska Board of Fish and Game and the Alaska Board of Game.
Wild game and Yukon River salmon still make up most of his food. He observes many of the old Athapaskan customs, and enjoys traditional stories that reveal the history and character of the Koyukon people.
Huntington lives with his wife, Angela, in the Yukon River village of Galena, Alaska.
ABOUT JIM REARDEN
Jim Rearden arrived in Alaska in 1947 to work as a summer Fishery Patrol Agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1950 he organized the wildlife department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he taught as head of that Department for four years. He resigned to become a freelance outdoor writer and photographer. To accompany that profession he became a registered big game guide.
To support his writing he also worked as a carpenter, an office manager, a clerk in a trading post, and as a commercial salmon fisherman. From 1959 through 1969, he was Area Biologist for Commercial Fisheries in Cook Inlet for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In 1970 he became the Outdoors Editor for Alaska Magazine, as well as a Field Editor for Outdoor Life magazine. He held both positions simultaneously for twenty years.
He has written twenty-seven books on Alaskan subjects and more than 500 features for about forty magazines in seven countries around the world.
He served on the Alaska Board of Fish and Game and the Alaska Board of Game 1970–82. In 1976 President Gerald Ford appointed him to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, where he served eighteen months.
He is a veteran of WWII and was sonar operator aboard the USS Lovering, a US Navy destroyer escort in the Central Pacific war zone. He holds a private pilot’s license, and has owned three airplanes. He has degrees in wildlife conservation from Oregon State University and the University of Maine. In 2005, in recognition of his teaching, wildlife conservation career, and writing, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
With his wife, Audrey, he lives in Homer in a log house he built himself.
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