Introduction. Beginnings -- Welcome to Cordova -- Hiking the Iron Trail -- Recuperation -- The mine -- Low man on the totem pole -- Bud is back -- The country -- The road house -- Forest fire -- Mining something else -- Prohibition and no inhibition -- Finishing the season -- Off season -- Dog teaming : origin of a mistake -- Adopt-a-team -- The dogs teach us to mush -- Beefing up the kennel -- The education continues -- New equipment -- Early winter -- Kennecott -- Learning Alaska history -- Outfitting -- The trail -- Taming live glaciers -- Near death on Skolai Pass -- Strategic withdrawal -- Return to Skolai -- Boyden's saga -- Over the pass -- Epilogue.
