Parallel Destinies: An Alaskan Odyssey.

147 p.: Ill. Lediglich der Einband ist leicht berieben, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a good and clean copy without markings. - TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Alaska: When Alaska Was a Different Land “The Great Death, ” the White Man’s Gold Rush Sweden -1875 - Lovisa Erika Jakobsson/Rika Wallen Montenegro: Jovo Hajdukovic, 1879 McCarty’s Beginnings John’s Entrance The Alaska Road Commission and the Cutoff McCarty Sugar Beets and Rationing/McCarty Agriculture Alonzo Maxey and the U S Army Military Reservation Fraternity of Prospectors The Building of the Roadhouse The Family Left Behind; MiliceAndje Prospectors Scattered to the Four Winds Rika’s Entrance The Sale of the Roadhouse; McCarty's/Rika's Tuberculosis at Healy Lake and in the Upper Tanana, c. 1920 Trading Milo Began Trading “Inside” the Agreement in 1922 The Bison Herd Importation The Interior’s Most Recognized Big Game Guide The Potlatch of 1927 The Roadhouse The Happy Days of Trading The Tetlin Trading an John’s Fan Transition A Promote Rika’s Roa Early Alasl World War The Isolatit Milo’s Inve Last Days i Reaching f( Fred and Jo Jack Single Transition MiliceAnd} “They had t Rika Epilogue: S Alaska, 189 Hajdukovicl Traders in tl Credits List of Insid Glossary . The Tetlin Reserve Trading and the Office of Indian Affairs John’s Family; Milo Marries in Montenegro Transition to the Modem Age A Promoter Not a Miner Rika’s Roadhouse in the 1930s Early Alaska Trucking World War II The Isolation of the Upper Tanana Milo’s Investments and the Death Years Last Days in the Roadhouse Reaching for Straws Fred and John Jack Singleton and C.D. Flannigan Transition Milice AndjeJovova “They had the best of both worlds” Rika Epilogue: Surviving Family in Sweden and Montenegro Alaska, 1895, When the Rivers and Valleys Were Little-Known Hajdukovich's Alaska, Landmarks Of the Big Delta Region .... Traders in the Late 1920s-Early 1930s Credits List of Inside Illustrations Glossary / In 1903, at the close of the Balkan Turk Empire, John Hajdukovich crossed tthe sea from Montenegro to an untouched wilderness: Alaska. John became a trader and a father to the Upper Tanana Athabaskans, the U.S. Commissioner, the Interior's finest big game guide, and the architect of the federal Tetlin Native Reserve. Happiest when he strode across the land, John was not like other men. In 1914, during Alaska's last gold rush, John built a roadhouse at the confluence of the Delta and Tanana Rivers, which today is Rika's Roadhouse State Park. Through the window of John's life: the Slavs who shaped Alaska, the Natives, and the Great Land's development may be seen. Their lives, like braided river channels, separate and run together, running side by side in parallel destinies. When, in 1942, the international Alcan Highway was built, the leisurely winters of Alaska's traders and roadhouses evaporated like a chinook wind blowing through a forest. John, who began the Upper Tanana's infrastructure, lived to see modern military forts where once only Lieutenant "Billy" Mitchell's 1901, telegraph trail had been. Parallel Destinies is also a story Swedish woman, . Rika Wallen, to whom John deeded the roadhouse for back wages. For fifty years, Rika was a stake in the ground for the roaming John. While John traded and prospected, Rika ran the hub of the Upper Tanana's crossroads. Her establishment was "town" to the three hundred people who walked the trails to the Alaskan-Canadian border. John Rika were the history of the Upper Tanana Valley. ISBN 9780971604407