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As you can tell it's easy for me to get sidetracked, now I have to go figure out who he was ;-).

He is pretty interesting to me too and I don't know why. Probably just disappeared up to the trail and never was noticed again. Not sure how one would try to trace something like that but let us know if you find anything.

Brent

I don't know but that there are moments when I wish I were going with him!

No doubt. Right NOW as a matter of fact.

One more memo, one more letter, one more lecture.... ah!!!!!!!!!!!

Brent, I'm with you. Seward, Alaska was for many years my own personal briar patch. I know it's a turn of the century scene and twenty years too early but damned if he don't look like "Uncle" Bob Lentz.

When I was in my early 20s, I would have jumped at the chance. But the Viet Nam-era GI Bill came along. Education and some sort of perceived need for "success" (hah! or phooey!) conquered my Alaska-itis. Looking back, Alaska would have been the better choice.

What fraction of our guy's annual income would it have cost to fill the consumable portion of a pack outfit like that? Was there more gear we do not see? Like a tent?

My 88 has a .318 barrel. It uses clips. I don't see any in the photo.

At about the time period of the photo & up to the late 30s, Remington made an "8 mm" that would function in any Mauser, Haenel 88 or Mannlicher rifle. Bullet weights were 227 & 236 grains. Winchester (WRACo)offered the same load 1904 to 1937, cataloged until 1942. Those heavy bullets were .3175"

The 170 grain round-nosed .323" bullet that replaced this load was made with a pure lead core that would squeeze down in a .318 bore and not generate higher pressures.

"When I was in my early 20s, I would have jumped at the chance. But the Viet Nam-era GI Bill came along. Education and some sort of perceived need for "success" (hah! or phooey!) conquered my Alaska-itis. Looking back, Alaska would have been the better choice."

I was discharged 9/11/66, by December I was headed North in my pickup, never looked back, IT WAS a good choice for me. I blame it on Klondike Kate.

HI Michael what happened to your link showing the file of men going over the snowed up pass as I remember seeing an old newspaper photo from that era showing hundreds of men in a line several miles long and all struggling up and over a snow bound pass. They had to pass an inspection from the mounties to ensure they had the right equipment and clothes to survive otherwise they were turned back.

I bought a passel of those W/W "8mm Special" 170 gr. ctgs. from a sporting goods store/gunshop (still there in 2010!) in Lewiston ID when I lived out there in the 1970s. They had picked them up "second hand" someplace and sold me 8 boxes cheap.

I had a 1917 Erfurt-made Kar98 "sporter" from a garage sale (Thanx, Bubba, I think!). Killed a meat deer every year with that until I could afford better. We chronied the shells and from that carbine they had almost identical ballistics to the .32 Win. Spl. Very soft, any way you figure it. Probably fine in an '88 of any bore.