{"id":514,"date":"2025-07-18T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:35:20","slug":"home-front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Trails and Tailings &#8211; Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"89\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Alaska_t.gif\" alt=\"Alaska outline\" class=\"wp-image-313\" style=\"width:115px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keturi.com\/trails\/chapter-1\/\"><strong>Read the memoirs<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;of Alaskan gold miner pioneer Elmer F. Keturi (1906-1996),&nbsp;written in 1984.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trails and Tailings tells the story of a hard working son of Finnish immigrants who, during the depression, left the farm in upstate New York for Alaska. \u00a0 Upon arrival in the 49th state, Elmer hiked hundreds of miles through the snow, ice, and wind to work a gold mine in the remote town of Flat City, Alaska*. \u00a0 \u00a0Later, \u00a0he found himself running gold mining operations in nearby Moore Creek, \u00a0and then Taylor Creek. \u00a0 And as the predecessor to Alaska\u2019s \u201cIce Road Truckers\u201d \u00a0he would also transport freight using bulldozer led \u201cCat Trains\u201d across the snow &amp; ice using trails he created on his own. Trails and Tailings details when one of his D8 bulldozers crashed through the frozen Yukon River in sub-zero temperatures, in 1944. \u00a0 (Be sure to check out the video of the bulldozer recovery with Elmer himself narrating,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/chapter-10\/\">\u00a0Chapter 10<\/a>.)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flat,_Alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flat City, AK<\/a>&nbsp;population in the early 1900\u2019s was approx. 6,000. &nbsp; Flat\u2019s population today is 0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keturi.com\/trails\/contents-2\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bulldozer on bottom of frozen Yukon River, AK 1944\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xsd6082N4o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the memoirs&nbsp;of Alaskan gold miner pioneer Elmer F. Keturi (1906-1996),&nbsp;written in 1984. Trails and Tailings tells the story of a hard working son of Finnish immigrants who, during the depression, left the farm in upstate New York for Alaska. \u00a0 Upon arrival in the 49th state, Elmer hiked hundreds of miles through the snow, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keturi.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}