Fox farming boom, bust a long-lasting boon for Kasilof

The silver black fox was the money crop for Kasilof fox farmers, as black fox fur was all the rage among high society in the early 1900s. (Photo by Merle LaVoy, courtesy of the Kasilof Historical Association.)
The growth of Kasilof owes a lot to an unusual kind of farming.
Kasilof in the 1920s was about as far from high society as you could get, with only a dozen year-round residents living off the land, no road, no grocery store, no bank, no post office and none of the creature comforts to be f