John Butrovich talks about Fairbanks Creek, his father coming over the Chilkoot Pass, his father in the Koyukuk River country with Gordon Bettles, Fred Swift and Jim Tobin, his family moving into Fairbanks when he was an infant, traveling out to the creeks with Joseen Ross and Fred Parker, stopping to let the caribou pass by, his father being away from home on prospecting trips, working for Paul Rickert, using trade tokens in place of money in early Fairbanks, Archie Ferguson, Clarence Berry, their camp on the Goodpaster River, people using ferries to cross the Big Delta and Salcha Rivers, Teddy Gray, the Indian village at Chena, the Chena Indians moving to Healy Lake after the flu epidemic, Mrs. Paul Kirksteatter telling him about the caribou fences in the Healy valley, agriculture in the Fairbanks area in the early days, the type of vegetables that Paul Rickert raised, Wyatt Schaeffer, George Gasser, Jimmy Wiese, Harry Badger, Sam Charlie, selling berries to Martin Neffie, selling grouse to Gus Bergland, delivering papers for W.F. Thompson, getting water in town, Old Man Herman, Fred Mushard, wood cutting, the large boats that came into town, Piledriver Slough, Walter Fisher, Tom Baylock, Paddy Doherty, the first telegraph line into Eagle, the Native graveyard at Healy, the Fourth of July celebrations in Fairbanks, and Roy Lund.