Along with his son Eugene and guide Elmer Simco, U.G. embarked on a boat trip in 1937 up the Koyokuk River, in search of a gold claim that he had worked some thirty years earlier. Before they had gone very far, he collapsed from a heart attack and died.
Along with his son Eugene and guide Elmer Simco, U.G. embarked on a boat trip in 1937 up the Koyokuk River, in search of a gold claim that he had worked some thirty years earlier. Before they had gone very far, he collapsed from a heart attack and died.
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