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Mamie Elwell is interviewed by Mike Dalton in Anchorage, Alaska in 1974

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  • "ORAL HISTORY 78-35-02. Mamie talks about what they cooked at camp, shooting a grizzly bear while she was picking blueberries, her husband shooting bears to protect clients, the Alaska earthquake when they were in Hawaii, staying at Kenai Lake in the summer, Jack Lane, Mrs. Charlie Lane, Frank Taylor, Pat Taylor, hauling freight with a dog team from Talkeetna to a mining site on Peters Creek, sled dogs, President Warren Harding's visit to Seward, Herbert Hoover, and never owning a car."
  • "ORAL HISTORY 78-35-01. Mamie Elwell talks about where she was born, coming to Alaska in 1920, her husband, Luke, how she chose her pen name, Niska, where her husband was born and where they met, her husband's first job in Alaska surveying for the road to Hope, getting a dog team from Russian John, living in Seward, gold mining in the Peters and Cache Creek, Luke getting a guide's license, working with Andy Simons and Hank Lucas for five years, their hunting clients, working with Gus Gelles, Elwell's Fishing Lodge on Russian Lake between Seward and Anchorage, traveling after their retirement, selling their lodge to Ward Gay, Howard Romig, having a pet mink, spruce grouse, moose, and bears at the lodge, traveling in Africa, growing vegetables at the lodge, the custom of leaving food in a cache at the mining camps at the end of the year, joining her husband in the hunting camps, and being the cook in hunting camp."

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  • "Mamie Elwell is interviewed by Mike Dalton in Anchorage, Alaska in 1974"

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