Texas Roust About to Gold Miner to Pioneering Southeast Alaska Frank Permenter was born high atop the New Mexico Continental Divide amongst the scrabble and sagebrush in a one-room rock dugout in the early winter of 1931. Filled with an adventuresome and inquisitive spirit, Frank tramped from the Northwoods of Idaho to Texas where he was a 'roust about.' His wanderlust eventually led him to Alaska. There,...