Steam Laundry

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142 Notes “Almost Anagram” Phyllis Movius noted the timing of Sarah Ellen Gibson’s change of name in her book A Place of Belonging. “Correspondence: A Recommendation” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folder 2, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “Chilkoot Trail” Joe’s letters are taken from the letters he wrote to Sarah while she waited in San Francisco. Some parts of the poems break his words into found poems; others are my imaginings. Sarah’s letters are invented responses. Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folders 8–12, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. I owe a debt to Tappan Adney’s descriptive details in his account of the Chilkoot Trail, The Klondike Stampede of 1897–1898. I’m especially grateful that Mr. Adney happened to be on the trail at the same time as Joe Gibson. “At Last an Invitation from 13 Eldorado” is derived from a letter Joe wrote to Sarah. Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folder 14, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Correspondence: Receipt for Freight” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 5, Folder 417, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “On Dominion Creek Tom Makes a Decision” Thanks to Audrey Loftus’s article, “Tom Gibson—Meat Hunter,” which appeared in Alaska Sportsman in August 1967, for suggesting Tom’s epiphany occurred here. “Correspondence: Free Miner’s Certificate” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 5, Folder 422, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “Tom Breaks Cargo on the Steamers” owes its existence (and some images) to Audrey Loftus’s article “Tom Gibson—Meat Hunter.” “Correspondence: A Contract, Witnessed, Sealed, and Signed” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 6, Folder 433, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Nellie Thinks She Should Have Waited for the Boat” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folder 70, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 143 “Tom Makes a Narrow Escape” and “Tom and Elmer Dive for the Gun” contain some lines drawn from “Struggle in River: Dawson Men’s Narrow Escape,” which appeared in the Dawson Daily News, Saturday, May 30, 1903. Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folder 73, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Not Near as Wild” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 1, Folder 73, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Elmer Considers the Old Man Drinking” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection. Box 2, Folder 176, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “Tom Returns to Dawson” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 2, Folder 116, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Luck Conspires against Tom and Elmer” owes its existence to Audrey Loftus’s article “Tom Gibson—Meat Hunter.” “Correspondence: Handwritten Receipt” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 5, Folder 419, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “Mother-in-law” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 2, Folder 176, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Correspondence: A Letter From Madame M. Yale” and “Correspondence: An Unanswered Questionnaire Tucked in a Packet of Letters” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 2, Folder 169, Archives,AlaskaandPolarRegionsCollections,RasmusonLibrary,UniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. “Correspondence: A Note on a Prescription Pad” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 3, Folder 225, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Until Payment Can’t Be Made” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 4, Folder 278, Box 3, Folder 215, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Correspondence: Printed Receipt for a Funeral” Sarah Ellen Gibson Collection, Box 5, Folder 418, Archives, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. ...