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And you couldn't walk it going down. In the spring of 1897 the Army command in Washington dispatched a Lieutenant Loefflerof its Supply Corps to look into these charges of gross mismanagement: 'Tell us whetherthe idea is practical. So, taking her assignment seriously, she began to make herself Alaska's civilianauthority on one small but important aspect of the problem: the salmon industry. It was a female, an immense ungainly creaturethat moved awkwardly but with a compelling majesty that arrested the attention ofanything that saw her,

' And gradually she inserted herself as an aide to anyone who could utilizeher, and thus made herself invaluable. if obedient to his warning, the menpaddled even faster than before and scraped by the rocks to which the marooned prospectorsheld. She's very special. I'm discovering that generalized emotion means littlein this business.