Northwest History. Alaska. Food Supply.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1920
• Subjects: Alaskan woman; the United States; Siberia; Alaska; Mary Antisarlok; Russian; Eskimo; the revenue cutter Bear; Sunset Magazine; reindeer meat; Point Barrow; lawless zone; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Waifs; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91552

Alaskan Woman Saved Whalers: Drove Large Herd Of Her Deer 500 Miles To Aid 400 Starving Men. ALASKAN WOMAN SAVED WHALERS Drove Large Herd of Her Deer 500 Miles to Aid 400 Starving Men. In 1893, when the United States decided to import reindeer from Siberia to Alaska, Mary Antisarlok, half Russian, half Eskimo, was engaged as in- ound-faced, bright-eyed voung women, newly married. Though glad of the opportunity, she refused to accept, unless her husband was also emloyed. He was engaged to do odd jobs on the revenue cutter Bear, used in transporting the deer, and Mary soon made herself intelligently and successfully useful among the natives with whom it was necessary to deal. Upon her return to Alaska after the completion of the work, the United States paid her with a large number of deer. Has Great Herd of Reindeer. With these animals as a nucleus, according to the Sunset Magazine, Mary developed a great herd, and she is now raising enough deer to supply thousands of consumers with ieindeer meat annually. She is now wealthy but still lives in a little group of cabins perched on a rocky promontory Stretching out into the sea. Though known for her business sagacity, she adopted several children, not babies but forlorn waifs left homeless in a remote and lawless zone. In 1898 Mary drove a large herd of her deer northward to the aid of 400 whalers stranded and starving in the cued the men after a journey of more than 500 miles through the deep snows of mid-winter. Later the government replaced the herd with interest, and gave her the thanks she deserved for her deed.