Alaska Frontier Love and Labor in the Matanuska Colony
In the Talkeetnas frontier tale, teacher narrator laments life amid two hundred settler families as Sidney Lander balances an engagement with Barbara Trumbull while loving rival Carol Coburn stirs passions with Salaria and Ericson’s threats loom. Sock-Eye Schlupp tests land claims as schooling opens and project tensions rise among workers and natives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Lander
Barbara Trumbull
Carol Coburn
Matanuska
Salaria Bryson
Carol
Alaska
Salaria
Sid Lander
States
Coast States
Pilgrim Fathers
New England
Wasilla
Betsy Sebeck
Katie
Trumbull
Lander
Matanuska Valley
Sidney
Barbara
First Aid to the Ailing House by Roger B Whitman
A collection of home repair and maintenance answers. Advises against heating coils in oil furnace fireboxes and suggests separate stoves or gas storage heaters for hot water. Recommends insulating walls, waterproofing plaster, and using proper asphalt base paints. Discusses damp plaster, skunk control, and safe moth flakes for storage areas. Mentioned are two car garages, basement bathrooms, ivory whitening, and moth ball usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. K
Southern Pine Association
New Orleans
Whose Hand Wrote the Famous Bixby Letter
A historian questions Lincoln's authorship of the Bixby letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, citing John Hay as the actual writer and noting Wakefield's evidence that neither the original nor true facsimiles survive. The letter was delivered November 1864 and first printed in the Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Abraham Lincoln
Lydia Bixby
Boston
Sherman Day Wakefield
Lincoln Fellowship of New York
Lincoln
Wakefield
Hobbies
Bixby
John Hay
Walter Hines Page
England
Wilson
Viscount Morley
Mr. Wakefield
Hay
Lander Probes Olie’s Tale and Trumbull Contact
Lander listens as I recount Olie’s story and notes whether John Trumbull has reached out recently. I tell him Trumbull had not been in touch during the past few days.
Selfish Fear Echoes in Vergil Quote
A Vergilian maxim contrasts personal fear with concern for others as one man’s ruin would not trouble him until he sees it harming another. The line reflects moral detachment and self interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vergil
Also Mentioned on This Page
W Arthur Stringer
Uncle Sam
Olie Eckstrom
Frieda
Anchorage
Eric the Red
Olle Eckstrom
Ericson
Olie
Goliath
Palmer
Sock- Eye
Lock-Eye
Sock-Eye
Moon of
Roger B. Whitman
WNU Service
Western Newspaper Union
Wast
Bate, Tr
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bellans
D. W. Thompson
Lydia
Pinkham
Tacitus
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
Louisvile, Kentucky
SERRE
Eranwe
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