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Dal Valley is interviewed by Penny J. Russell on April 25, 1996 in Kodiak, Alaska [sound recording].
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Dal Valley is interviewed by Penny J. Russell on April 25, 1996 in Kodiak, Alaska [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog.
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Recorded April 25, 1996 in Kodiak, Alaska.
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Dal Valley is interviewed by Penny J. Russell on April 25, 1996 in Kodiak, Alaska. Valley recounts his life history. He tells of working at a dredge and driving dumptrucks; his marriages and children; work during the war including for the Corps of Engineers, Boeing, tug boat companies, and lumber companies; his career in the Merchant Marines; selling timber to Port Bailey; his sawmill on Afognak Island; delivering lumber by boat; building projects he worked on in the Kodiak Island region; building a bridge; the Francisco V; the Uyak; a jailbreak;"Fanny Fury"; working for King Crab Fisheries; his cabin on Afognak River; a bear encounter with Harold Haglin; changes in Kodiak; anecdotes about schooling children at the mill camp; the winter of 1946-1947; shooting three bears naked; and his children and what they do.
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