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The hardest part of making this classic Halloween treat is getting started, and maybe not burning your fingers. Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion

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Building confidence to do hard things

Although candy making is intimidating, it’s not impossible.

Emmett Krefting, age 6-7, at the Wible mining camping in 1907-07, about the time he first met King David Thurman. (Photo from the cover of Krefting’s memoir, Alaska’s Sourdough Kid)

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King Thurman: An abbreviated life — Part 4

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In 1913, King David Thurman, a Cooper Landing-area resident who often seemed one step ahead of…

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Crusty and firm bread bowls are best for brothy soups, or make them pillowy soft for thicker stews. Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion

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Beautiful bread is performance art

Though these bread bowls will soon be eaten and gone, the effort will not be wasted.

This is part of the intake data entered when, in 1913, King David Thurman began his 50-day sentence in the Seward Jail for violating Alaska’s game laws. A 1911 attempt to nail Thurman for such a violation had failed.

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King Thurman: An abbreviated life — Part 3

AUTHOR’S NOTE: King David Thurman, a miner and trapper who lived and worked in the Cooper Landing area…

Serve your London Fog in a lovely cup and enjoy while reading the news. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sip while reading the news

This London Fog is delicious, served in a lovely cup with milk and honey.

Photo from Marshall Scull’s 1914 memoir, Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska Ferdinand “Fritz” Posth, left, poses with two Dall sheep heads and fellow guide/packer William “Wild Bill” Dewitt at a cabin on upper Killey River in the early 1910s. When King David Thurman was arrested for a game violation in 1911, Posth testified against him, but some jurors discounted his testimony and declined to convict Thurman.

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King Thurman: An abbreviated life — Part 2

AUTHOR’S NOTE: King David Thurman came to Alaska seeking gold. One of the earliest specific records of his…

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The cover of Alaska’s Sourdough Kid, a memoir concerning the early life of Emmett T. Krefting, authored by Krefting and his son, Michael D. Krefting. Emmett met and befriended King David Thurman during the first decade of the 20th century.

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King Thurman: An abbreviated life — Part 1

A probate court met in Seward on Jan. 28, 1915, to determine the fate of the personal property…

These spiced molasses cookies with golden sprinkles are pillowy and fragrant. Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion

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Sweet, spice and everything nice

These soft, pillowy cookies are sweet and fragrant and perfect with a glass of milk.

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Unhinged Alaska: A quick insight into moose

It seems that my style insults some of the intelligentsia who author odes to tree moss and/or are…