Northwest History. Alaska. Dogs, Dog Races & Mushers.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Mary Joyce; Tanana Crossing; Fairbanks; Alaska; wilderness trail; telegraphic communication station; Yukon territory; Burwash landing; Taku lodge; Jimmy Allen; Yukon watershed region; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Burwash Landing; Indian; Kluane Lake; Lone; Pacific; Taku; Yukon; Yukon watershed
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90525

Mary Joyce Five Days Overdue At Tanana Crossing. Mary Joyce Five Days Overdue at Tanana Crossing Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 27.—(/P)— Fears that diminutive Mary Joyce, 27-year old dog musher, may have met disaster somewhere along her wilderness trail, were felt here tonight as she was reported five days overdue at Tanana crossing, a telegraphic communication station 150 miles southeast of here. She has not been reported since she mushed out of Burwash landing, Yukon territory, February 9. The comely Taku lodge mistress, from southeastern Alaska, left Burwash with her five dogs and a lone Indian guide named Jimmy Allen. The temperature at that time was 48 degrees below zero. Like Wilderness. The 300-mile route from Burwash, on the northwestern side of Kluane-lake, to Tanana crossing is over a sparsely settled, frozen wilderness. There are no roads, no villages, and only a few native huts. Several ice-caked rivers and streams cross the Miss Joyce left Taku December 22 for Fairbanks, 1,000 miles due north. She Is travelling over the long inland route, over the mountains, and down the Yukon watershed region. She said she was making the dog-sled journey, "just £or the experience."