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. A 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 . "The 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 Log cabins Racks (Supporting devices)
Subject.Local	Caches
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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1905, main camp at head of Lakina River.

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