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Aug. 22b James A. Wickersham diary, 1901.

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Collection Name	Wickersham State Historic Site. Manuscripts, 1884-1970s.
Identifier	ASL-MS0107-Diary02-1901-August22b
Title	Aug. 22b James A. Wickersham diary, 1901.
Creator	Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Contributors	Slemmons, Mary Anne [Transcriber]
Type	Text
Ordering & Use	http://library.state.ak.us/vilda_rights.html
Holding Institution	Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau AK 99811-0571 mailto:asl@eed.state.ak.us
Transcript	tracks of foxes. Saw the raven flying from high to lower levels, - every time he uttered his call - "tlock-lock", he turned over on his back for a second - thus "[sketch of raven]" with his feet uppermost. I was surprised to see him - several of them - do this repeatedly on lowering themselves valley =ward. The "Challenge" a small schooner is in port from "At{h}ka Island. There are no settlements, even of natives between Unalaska island and "Athka island" and only Athka and Attou have [previous word struck through] to the west have inhabitants. The schooner "Challenge" is owned by Capt. Dirks, while her commander is Capt. Peterson. They are both old Alaska Commercial Co men, and came into this region with the Western Union Tel Co. in 1867 or thereabouts to build the line via Yukon river and Berings straits to Europe. Years ago they returned
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