John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXIV
According to John suicide was not infrequent among the Indians and was effected in various ways; shooting, hanging, drowning, poisoning...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXVII
John with his brother and his wife started to return home, they got to the village where they had tried to kill his horse. They slept...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part VII
John’s father had over indulged and was intoxicated and he caused a ruckus with a younger man who roughly pushed him down and then picked...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLII
The first winter in Fairbanks were pedestrian for the Violet Kielczewski family. Violet enrolled her two youngest children, 10 year old...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLI
After getting ashore and getting the outboard motors cleaned of sand and the evening meal, they wondered what challenges were to come. ...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXVIII
Orrah Jr. was holding a telegram in his hand, and Violet just knew “we had lost our beloved Frankie”, it read “Frank drowned on Harris...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXVII
Violet didn’t have a visa to enter the United States, husband Orrah who was an American citizen had lived in Canada for over forty years...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXIII
Dogs were permanent fixtures in Violet's home from the time she eloped by dog sled with Orrah, until her children were grown. Violet's...
Inexplicable Frank: Frank has it tough.
In late January of 1913 Frank wrote his family in Indiana that he was making progress but since last summer he had been short of breath...
