Harry Johns talks about where he was born, his parents Skookum and Susan Johns, growing up in Copper Center, working at the Copper Center Roadhouse, Florence Barnes, people traveling from Valdez and Fairbanks by stagecoach and horse, roadhouses located every ten miles on the Valdez-Fairbanks route, different roadhouses along the route, trapping and hunting, subsistence activities throughout the year, working for the Alaska Road Commission, learning to drive a model-T, Harry Johns, clearing brush on the highway, working on the highway near Paxson, helping to build the Glenn Highway, Denali Highway and the Chitina Road, working on the roads by hand, cooking for the road crews, separate camps for Natives and non-Natives, the different types of trucks that he drove, meeting the steamships to truck freight, marrying Ruth in the 1940s, going to Bible school in Glennallen, becoming a pastor, the mission group in Copper Center, Reverend Joy, the changes brought about by the pipeline, changes in subsistence hunting, Wrangell-St. Elias Park, and his role as chief of the Copper River tribes. Ruth talks about her parents, Estaku Ewon and Jessie Charlie, 1918 flu epidemic, arranged marriage for her parents, her father working as a substitute teacher, learning to sew skins from her mother, the Russian Orthodox church, Harry's father's role as a medicine man, teaching at the Copper Center School, Michael Krauss, Jim Kari, Ruth Reed, her first language, her father trapping for a living, her large family, and trapping lynx and fox.