From Kupreanof to Karluk: Telling Kodiak's West Side Stories

摘要

"I bought that site for $2,000 and a case of whiskey," Floyd Anderson chuckled as he pointed near Broken Point on a map of Uganik Bay, on the west side of Kodiak Island. In Uganik, some people treasured whiskey more than cash. At least it seemed likemy grandfather did, Slim True-man, the man from whom Floyd bought the site. In 1977, Floyd traded Slim one site for another, the appropriately named Bartenders. Floyd fished Bartenders each summer until 2006, when he sold out and stopped setnetting at the age of 75.