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North Wales is best for you Darryl, where the air is clean,no Slag Heaps or Welsh Assembly,where men are men and the sheep are nervous,anywhere from Aberystwyth upwards will do,and the beaches all face the sea.lol rustygates

Good luck on your expedition Lars and make a diary with photos as i did. rustygates.

Some more links http://jukebox.uaf.edu/gatesportal7/community/wiseman photo of brother and i clearing brush from around Bob's cabin with Jack Reakoff supplying the coffee

A bit more about Wiseman A village of two halves,with the Wiseman river in the middle where once was a wooden bridge there is now a steel one,there was rivalry and suspicion in years Bob lived there between either side, and when the mail plane came in with stores and the mail,the pilot had to...

This Truckstop is closed in the winter and when the owners returned in the spring they noticed the back door had been smashed thinking it was some trucker had broken in,they set about cleaning it up and found a grizzly hibernating in the laundry room and called the local ranger to dispose of...

He was a strong and rugged guy,he told us abut the first time the grizzly came around to the cabin,it was at night, he heard a noise,thinking it was a neighbour calling so he went to the door and the grizzly was standing on his hind legs trying to tear some aluminum plate that was nailed to the...

outside

This is Fred

Thanks for the positive messages,as iv'e said before it was a journey of a lifetime and we went not expecting anything, but came back with some mind blowing experiences and finding out so much about Bob and his friends up in Nolan and Wiseman and then travelling around this vast open country was...

This epic story is coming to an end,there are more artifacts diaries etc and the tragic story of Fred Haflinger,who we met on the way up to Wiseman,he was a gold prospector who lived in Livengood and had trouble with a particular grizzly that tried to get into his cabin. If anyone wants more...

Part 2

Part 1 of Bob's Naturalisation papers

Part of the shopping list given to the pilot for his next trip up to Wiseman and Nolan

Another letter,these letters could take weeks to arrive if the plane was stranded in bad weather

Side 2 of the letter

A letter to Bob

front of letter

the envelope.

One of Bob's letters this would have been flown up to Wiseman

Gold pokes Candle holder with a cork on the pointy bit Small gold dust hand scales