Connie's muskrat parka was made by Eliza Attla in 1958.

Gives a good sense of the distance in that part of the interior. Places are miles away by river in the summer are very near cross country. Also, the presence of many sloughs, and dry old river beds, are a strong feature of that river.

The large body of water at the top is the lake behind town. This lake was a great source of ice for melting in the winter time. On the far side of the lake there were many "wood yards" which supplied the town with fire wood.

The red roof is the old school/church/town hall. The white building is the "new" school hidden in the trees to right of red roof.

The school is a pre fab building clearly visible. Old school/town hall/church to left of it.

View from hill behind Edwin Simon's and Billy Sam's.

The point of land on the left with cut bank was the site of the old cemetery. It was being radically eroded away by spring waters and gravesites were being exposed.

In a site which I assume is gone now after years of cut bank damage.

I suspect this was the last year that a stern wheeler was used to move barges upriver with supplies for Huslia, Hughes, Hog River (the U.S. Smelting and Refining gold dredge site) and Allakaket. We were not in Huslia in 1958 when the barges arrived. By 1959 the tugboat the TAKU CHIEF was the power behind the barges.

Within 2 3 years this store was moved further back from the river as the bank kept cutting in more and more during spring break up. Lucy's husband John Sackett, a white man, had been a longtime trader here and in Cutoff. He died in 1957. The store was also the post office. Lucy was post mistress. She also had an emergency radio for contacting the hospital in Tanana.