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Tanana River |
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Tanana RiverRiver, east-central Alaska, U.S. Rising from two headstreams fed by glaciers high in the Wrangell Mountains, the Tanana flows northwest 550 mi (885 km) to join the Yukon River; it is the Yukon's chief southern tributary. The Tanana was first explored by Russian traders in the mid-19th century. Its valley was an important gold-producing area in the 1904 gold rush; it is also a lumbering district and one of Alaska's major farming regions. The Alaska Highway follows it for nearly its entire course. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It began 5 years ago as an ad hoc group of families living in the Tanana River Watershed, an area about the size of Pennsylvania. Will Smart, the poet protagonist of the title story, is so severely alcoholic that all he wants is ``to reconstruct a poem he had written about witnessing the salmon migration in the Tanana River in central Alaska 30 years before. Locals who lined up in mass to meet racing veteran Joe Nemechek and get a glimpse of the #87 Cellular One Monte Carlo say they can't remember the last time something this big came to this small hamlet 140 miles south of the Arctic Circle in the Tanana River Valley. |
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