1905, main camp at head of Lakina River.
Collection Name
Ocha Potter Papers, 1878-1950
Identifier
UAF-2003-163-13m
Title
1905 , main camp at head of Lakina River .
Description
Title taken from donor's caption . cabin stands next to two tents . Behind them are trees and mountains ; in front , possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying .unwritten law of the early day Alaskan prospectors guarded our cache . A year's work or men's lives might depend upon the pile of supplies by the side of the trail but it was never disturbed by the old timers . The doors of the prospector's camps were never locked . If we left camp for a few days or a week , food supplies were in plain sight on the shelves or hung from nails on the walls . If visitors came they used our food only in emergency and left word of their taking . That was the unwritten law . During my four years experience in Alaska I remember only one loss from theft . A wolverine carried away about 150 pounds of bacon in one night. " Additional information was obtained from Potter , Ocha . "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950 : Sixty Years " 1950 , 59-60 .
Creator
Potter, Ocha, 1878-
Subject.TGM
Camps Tents Caches Log cabins Racks (Supporting devices)
Location
Lakina River (Alaska)
Region
Southcentral Alaska
Time Period
1896 to 1913
Date
1905
Type
Image (Photographs)
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Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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