Porcupine River
Americannoun
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Their parents hired a mountain guide, who searched for Gary Sotherden by canoeing up the Porcupine River in 1977.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Relying on genetic testing and genealogy research, state troopers in Alaska confirmed that a skull found by the Porcupine River in 1997 was that of Mr. Sotherden.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Three miles from Fort Yukon we crossed the Porcupine River and then plunged into the wilderness of lake and swamp and forest that stretches north of the Yukon.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
That’s five hundred miles, just along the Arctic Circle, and in that five hundred miles we go from Canadian into American territory—at Rampart House, on the Porcupine River.
From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Hough, Emerson
May, 1805.—We reached the mouth of a river flowing from the north, which, from the unusual number of porcupines near it, we called Porcupine River.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
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