It was a grueling trip of ninety miles in four days, over rough terrain.
The last stage of the journey, from Eagle to Chicken, was by horse‐andmule pack train led by a courteous person, Mr. People on the way were hospitable to a fault, giving parties wherever she stopped bachelors proposed marriage practically at sight, because white women were so in the settlements. Tisha (as her Indian pupils called her, trying to say “Teacher') was a 19year‐old girl, Anne Hobbs, who had come from Oregon to take charge of the school of a small gold‐mining town, Chicken, in the Forty Mile country near the Yukon. The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness. In the Alaska of 1927 this prejudice was leveled at the Indians It is anything but nice, dealing as it does with rampant race prejudice. This book is as fresh as springtime, but though the style is artless and easy, the reader should not be put off by a pre‐publication reviewer who labeled it nice.
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