Magdalene Cassady talks about her trip to Fairbanks in 1937, meeting up with her husband at the ferry crossing over the Tanana River, the roadhouses on the Richardson Highway, Paxson, Black Rapids Glacier, her husband working for the Northern Commercial Company, Fairbanks during World War II, the Russian pilots, flying on a supply plane down the Kuskokwim River, the Red Top Mine at Kantishna, Cliff Hawkins, joining her husband when he repaired equipment at various mines, Heine Carstens, traveling down the Yukon River from Circle City to Fort Yukon, Evolyn Baker Melville operating a roadhouse at Fort Yukon, using local wild foods, hunting, canning wild meat and salmon, her children, and the Kobuk area.