(9:56 min.) (06 of 09)
River conditions
villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
31 second film clip, color/silent, of Front street and the shoreline at Kotzebue, Alaska, 1958-1961. The tugboat, Helen Lee, is seen with a walrus carcass on its deck. People are walking on the sidewalk.
57 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows damage to four small villages on Kodiak Island by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio relates personal experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film...
62 second, black & white/silent, film clip of passengers lifted onto a barge by a crane and then barged to a passenger ship off Nome, Alaska. A small boat can be seen tied to a pier and the steamship in the distance.