Ihad already purchased the book online — and was waiting for it to arrive in my mailbox — when I discovered an article about its publication on page 10 of the Dec. 29, 1956, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The article was positive, but reading it left me feeling that I might have erred in ordering the book.

The book, by George C. Kosmos, who lived for many years in Seward, was called “Alaska Sourdough Stories” and had come to my attention while I was doing a Google search for a completely different man, King David Thurman, whom I had been researching for another story I hoped to write, and who had also spent time in Seward (sometimes in court or in jail).

The connection between King Thurman and Kosmos’ book seemed unclear to me, but as I expanded my search, I found a listing of chapters and

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