Young Men Go North Upton Joe
Young Men Go North Upton Joe "I went up on the Star of Alaska in 1918." It was 1965 and an old timer was spinning a tale for 18-year-old Joe Upton. They'd drop anchor in some remote Bristol Bay…
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Young Men Go North Upton Joe
"I went up on the Star of Alaska in 1918." It was 1965 and an old timer was spinning a tale for 18-year-old Joe Upton. They'd drop anchor in some remote Bristol Bay river, the last snow still on the shores. Of sailing up from San Francisco to Alaska's remote and austere Bristol Bay aboard a square-rigged ship loaded with Chinese cannery workers, Norwegian and Italian fishermen, and American carpenters.
Install the boiler and the canning machines. Lower the pile driver and drive a forest of pilings, build a cannery on top. Finally, the first of the salmon flipping and stirring in the river off the cannery.
The run: what they had all come north for and time to launch and rig the sailing gillnetters. And all set on that treeless shore with a steaming volcano looming over them.A few years later, flush from a season on a Bering Sea king crabber, Upton headed north with his own