The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
Alaskan Pioneers.
(NeW York Times.l
Gentleman Unafraid By Barrett Will Ioughby. Illustrated 2S5 nn New

Gentleman Unafrad. By Barrett Will
 loughby. Illustrated 2S5 pp. New YorkG. P. Putnam's Sons
 Barrett Wiloughby is young woman whose childhood was spent in strange and perious and romantic wanderings in Alaska and the Alaskan islands, and whose home is in Alaska now It is civilized" Territory in which she now lives where steam heat and electric light are matters of course, where the people tune in of an even ing the radio programs from all over the world, and where the Mayors wife orders from seattle sixteen hundred miles away fresh roses Tor her parties. But when Miss Willoughby's ad- venturous Irish father took his young wife and three babies around the coasts and up the rivers in his little boat such civilization was still far away. And even now. with all Alaska's modern ity' the dog team begins, as she points out where the Pullmon finishes, and the wilderness that stretches beyond the towns and homesteads is unchanged.
 Loving Alaska with all her heart Barrett "iiioughby knows the land and the people, the eountrys possibilities and the who in one way and another. have brought and are brineinp those possibilities to fruit It is of tbeso .aanti men unairaid' that she writes in as fascinatine Q d DOCK as has come to hand in many day
 mere Is Sandy Smith, ace of trail- pagers she calls him, who all his fife has heard the call or something lost beyond the ranges D AS little boy in Scotland. Alexander Malcolm omlth was always fascinated by the mystery of the llttIe bare places the maps" and for many years now he has been making his great eoheiiputioh to the spread of civilization by solv- ing the mystery and filling up the bare places III an important corner of the world Tbero ;s oeotty Allan whose work with the dog teams ol Alaska has made the dog of Nome ipterno tiohaiiy famous, and whose dog Baldy was known through two continents. Allan Alexander Allan was the King of the Arctic Trais who introduoad oos-raclng Tn Alaska and first trained packs of aoss Tor this sport. But he has never made . ouslhess or dog-racing; he is manager of a b;e machinery and hardware company and has bean member of the Alaska Legislature Tho wor,, that ms great dogs did in France all inc world knows ~ 'he "orla
 Ihen there is the pioneer mining enoinoor neorse Watkln Evans, who somehow monaoo 'o put glamour on lfe' for prosaic businoss ,neh mere IS the plant wizard of Alaska or Di. o o' Georgeson who is doing such marvellous things Ill developing the agricultural resouroes s that great land. There is the chamnion suy;ft water piiot' Sydney Darlington who can navigate the most dangerous of the wild rivers of AlasLa Ahd, With the picture of Miss Willonghbv,s ad Fehtuousr childhood there is the story of some oi hef fathers quests for the .wll-o -tbe-w;sn very stlrrlng reading indeed
 All these men talk with us tell stories from @ tner careers, live yividy in the pages of Mise "llloughDys book. And their work and its pionhise i've too. She writes with simnlicitv charm ana restraint, and with admirable obiec 'N1y she makes all Alaska "come alive