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  • I came to your village minded to go up the Koyukuk.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • Hay Stockard finished his pipe by the fire, picturing in smoke and coal the unknown upper reaches of the Koyukuk, the strange stream which ended here its arctic travels and merged its waters with the muddy Yukon flood.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • You may go on and see for yourself; you may go back to your brothers; but up the Koyukuk you shall not go while the priests and fighting men do my bidding.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • Four major rivers, the Yukon, Tanana, Koyukuk, and upper Kuskokwim, provide the area's outstanding hydrologic features.

    Yukon Intermontane Plateaus Tayga Forest (Bailey) 2009

  • In the historic mining village of Wiseman, 3 miles off the Dalton Highway on the wide Koyukuk River, I talked to a trapper and subsistence hunter, Jack Reakoff, who figured we had our work cut out for us.

    How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway 2004

  • It had led us from Nome over the quaking tundras, and then to the Koyukuk, and at last to this little camp among the spruces, somewhere between the headwaters of the Koyukuk and the

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • Koyukuk and sold our furs at Rampart, Here Black Dave quit us saying he was going back to Arizonia.

    Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis

  • Far from the icy and unknown wastes of the interior, around the great Circle and Rockies, riding above the heads of rivers and mountains, he came from the Koyuk and Koyukuk.

    A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

  • Koyukuk but missed our mark striking forty miles above the mouth we had hard times crossing the snow-capped mountains and climbing over Glaciers breaking trails for our dogs, fixing broken sleighs and mending worn out harnesses. tieing up stranded Snow-shoes and facing death in many forms.

    Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis

  • At Yessetlatoh, near the mouth of the Koyukuk, they took up quarters in an abandoned fishing cabin.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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