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The Lamp in the Valley by Arthur Stringer
A northbound Alaska tale on the Yukon deck follows a young schoolteacher named Carol Coburn and a hardened prospector Ericson as a mysterious stranger intervenes. The narrator, a New England born educator, contemplates Alaska’s rough frontier while a tense encounter unfolds between rival visions of progress and wildness.
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Alaska
Oldtimers
Pretty One
Camptown
Tokluta
Eric the Red
Yukon
Oe Ericson
Stringer
Matanuska
Carol Coburn
Ericson
Seattle
West Coast
Anchorage
Seward
Lehigh
Michikmamau
Labrador
Flin Flon
Fairbanks
Tanana
Trumbull
Chakitana
Trumbull Company
Tokluma
States
Waceeta Hills
Ghost Lake
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Saginaw
England
Summmer
Detroit
Amalfi
Florence
Fiesole