Original sentence: , and was not able to personally operate the roadhouse full time.By 1913 the roadhouse was a local center of activity for gold prospectors, local hunters, traders, and freighters...Hadukovich had other business interests, including prospecting, freighting, acting as a hunting guide by taking hunting parties into the nearby Granite Mountains, and trading with the Athabaskan natives, as well as the responsibilities of US Game Commissioner for the area.In 1916 Rika traveled to Valdez, it is said "because she thought Alaska would be like Sweden".. After jobs cooking at the Kennecott copper mine and for a Fairbanks boarding house, Rika made her way to Big Delta, and in 1917 or 1918 John Hadukovich hired Rika Wallen to manage operations at the roadhouse, then known as McCarty's.She also raised silver fox, ducks, geese, rabbits and honeybees as well as growing grain using a yoke of oxen for plowing.. Rika was a natural farmer who was able to successfully grow crops where others failed
Edited sentence: After jobs cooking at the Kennecott copper mine and for a Fairbanks boarding house, Rika made her way to Big Delta, and in 1917 or 1918 John Hadukovich hired Rika Wallen to manage operations at the roadhouse, then known as McCarty's.By 1913 the roadhouse was a local center of activity for gold prospectors, local hunters, traders, and freighters.Hadukovich had other business interests, including prospecting, freighting, acting as a hunting guide by taking hunting parties into the nearby Granite Mountains, and trading with the Athabaskan natives, as well as the responsibilities of US Game Commissioner for the area, and was not able to personally operate the roadhouse full time.In 1916 Rika traveled to Valdez, it is said "because she thought Alaska would be like Sweden".Rika was a natural farmer who was able to successfully grow crops where others failed.She also raised silver fox, ducks, geese, rabbits and honeybees as well as growing grain using a yoke of oxen for plowing