We ate here last night. During the gold rush days, the water pumps were used to flush gold laden dirt out of the earth Ten Million dollar creek - that's the amount of gold found in this creek A log cabin house along the Chena River. Susan Butcher and her husband Dave Monson own and operate Trailbreaker Kennel. Susan Butcher has won the 1,100 mile Iditarod Dog Sled Race from Anchorage to Nome four times. She led the only climbing party to conquer Mt. McKinley (20,320 ft) by dog sled. She hooks up the dogs to a four wheeler to give them a work out. Dog run. The dogs can get on the platform if they get tired. Wonderful dogs! Tribal house. The roof is new sod so the tarp and tires are holding it on Car driven barge Beaver working to get celulose from trees for food FIsh wheel for salmon fishing. Salmon are scooped up in wheel, hit the trough, and are dropped into a box. The fish are retrieved from the box, cleaned, de-headed, and split nearly to end of tail. They are hung on the drying rack for short period of time and moved to the smoking shed. Trough to catch fish The cabins were built with available resources - trees and sod. Both trees and sod insulated the cabin.

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