twenty-by-sixteen

Updated: September 15, 2026

Our quarters consisted of an excellent twenty-by-sixteen cabin, made of whip-sawed spruce timber, the round log side of course being outside. Half of it, partitioned off, was devoted to our office a very complete one, I may say, for Alaska.

Lanier McKee - The Land of Nome: A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea: gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and: the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901)