Fritz, “Colonel”

1898-1899

Provides Schrader/Bjornstad party with provisions: “Fritz’s party came in with 12 horses,” camped nearby on trail between Copper Center and Taral, MB-D, 9/14/98; Bjornstad asked Fritz’s party if they could buy flour and pork as they had used the last for breakfast; told to return in afternoon as his partner wasn’t there and he needed to consult with him, MB-D, 9/14/98; Hallett crossed Copper River and got sack of flour, one piece of bacon an some evaporated potatoes from Fritz, MB-D, 9/15/98; “Hallett and Gardner went down to Copper River to get some more provisions from Fritz’ party. At 6 p.m. Hallett came in, poor boy, wringing wet, no hat, and almost crying, telling us, that in recrossing the river, Turk stumbled into a hole. The stream caught his foot and pulled him off of the mule. He lost the sack of provisions, had to throw the rifle away and swim for his life. They paid $30.00 for the rifle. This ended it and the hope of getting more provisions gone.” MB-D, 9/16/98; civilian, gold rusher, Koehler mentions in Koehler in Abercrombie, p. 609; Cashman delivers a letter to him; wintering with 12 horses at mouth of Kotsena River, Cashman in Abercrombie 1900, p. 162; Cashman stops and rests there on way back, p. 165;