Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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An hour before I got to the camp there was a snowslide that buried George Merrill and a dozen others, and I spent the day frantically shoveling with a gang of rescuers. Oddly enough it was I who uncovered his crushed body— the darn fine chap, my friend whom I had never known. I lived in Alaska seven years. The great open spaces were wide open in those days. Yaldez, the nearest town to our claims and the northernmost port open in the winter, consisted of some sixty buildings, fifty of them saloons. After the lonely months in bleak mining-camps where men lived in tents and grew to hate each other's faces ; where wolves and bears were the only other life, and a letter from Back Home' (we always pronounced it with capitals) had to be hauled over two hundred and fifty-nine miles of rugged trail before it reached us, the rough pleasures and crude excitements of Valdez soon emptied our purses of our years' accumulation of wages. Three weeks after I came to town for the frozen winter season, I didn't have enough left in my pockets to jingle! I didn't care tho ; money doesn't mean so much when you are only twenty, and, besides, there was always the glamorous possibility of making a lucky strike and finding gold next spring. Valdez was " swarming with unshaven millionaires of this kind, with diamond studs in flannel shirts. One old chap we called the Lucky Swede had diamonds set in his front teeth. There was a motion picture show in Yaldez with soap-boxes and planks for seats. The boys would pay their way in with nuggets, watch the cowboys riding over the screen — which was about the extent of the movies of those days — till the film tore. Then they'd go out and get a drink and come back — or maybe they'd get two drinks and not come back. When my money was gone I would get a job for the winter. Once I drove the mail sleds back and forth from the nearest town three hundred miles away. 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