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Parallel Destinies, An Alaskan Odyssey
Rika's Roadhouse, a lodge built at Big Delta in 1914, was the hub of civilization between Fairbanks and the Canadian border between 1904 and 1942. John Hajdukovich, a Yugoslavian, and the builder of Rika's, was the law, a trader and the life support system to the Natives of the Upper Tanana River. Hajdukovich was the force behind the Tetlin Reserve and was also at that time the Interior's most competent big game guide. Sparking the Interior's infrastructure, and numerous businesses, Hajdukovich was a father of today's Tanana River Valley economy.
Parallel
Destinies has been acclaimed by the Arctic Bibliographer and Rare Books
Curator, University of Alaska, Rasmuson Library; the head of the Interior's
State Parks; the purchaser for Alaska Gateway School District; Barnes and Noble;
world-published author, Mihajlo Mihajlov; various Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
editors; book store and art gallery owners, here, and in the Yukon and Northwest
Territories. Destinies, an excellent Christmas gift,
helps resident and
visitor alike better understand the story of the North. Parallel Destinies
is followed by
Blue Hills, Alaska's
Promised Land,
the published tales of the Ferguson family in the Alaska
Bush.
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......is the North's history in a microcosm. By portraying John and Rika, key
figures of early Alaska, the North's development may be more clearly
understood. Through one hundred, beautifully-rendered, archival
photographs, and the appealing lay-out of the well-researched text, the
story is easy reading. 