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Alaska with her cousin - but she decided against that. Then she thought of a
hotel or restaurant in Nome as her sister was a good cook and she could wait
on the table. If hefm her mother would come to southeast Alaska, she would
go because she had heard they got bigger prices for skin boots there, $5.,
$10, $15. - and very few people who made them. She would rather work she
said, but now she had no skins. I thought I might find something in some movie
studio where they used fur clothes for their northern pictures. She might make
the coats - however we will see how that goes. If Larry is not back from
Mexico I don't just know what I will do with her until I can get her to the
ranch, as I am expected to go to work the day after I get to Hollywood, but
I'll find some way. Mr. McMicken wanted to take her picture to-day but she
ran away - she said she didn't want it. I think whatever Mrs. Gore told her
frightened her. She said to me to-day that she didn't want to tell her
story but "she said to herself" that she had better tell it or they would
murder her. I laughed her out of that idea and tried to explain how they always
kept the records of all expeditions for history - and since she was on Wrangell
expedition her story was a part of true history. I said among her people there
were story-tellers who kept telling the history of the tribes one to the other,
but white people had a written history, and that was what this was for. She
said "Oh! is that it" and seemed satisfied. I think she understands things
very well.

She said to-day she forgot to show you the letters she had
from Mr. Noice and the one about the money - when she was there. She doesn't
seem to ask for anything - said she knew she had to watch her money closely
and could only spend about $20, a month or she wouldn't have enough to go back
to Nome - that she didn't want to touch anything that was in the Nome bank -
that was for Bennett - only she had written some man in Nome to let her mother

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