Devils Paw

 A.K.A. Frank and Joe in the cold north. You know the drill by now, a short review and a couple of DLs to the original texts so you can read along at home.

This is the Hardys in Alaska, hence the tagline. Summoned up by telegram to help Tony Prito's summer job as a ranger on the Kooniak river. They run into poachers and worse a foreign power looking for a fallen rocket. With the help of Ted Sewell, a wildlife tracker looking for his dad and Fleetfoot, a Haida youth, the boys take on these creepy crooks. Oh and Chet comes along as well. 

The first thing you'll note, doing some research on this  is that most of the places and things detailed in this are real things.

The Devil's Paw is a mountain that is on the border of British Columbia and Alaska and looks suitably bleak.

Kotzebue where an Inuit woman comes from, and where the boys gatecrash her wedding when they visit Fleetfoot. is an actual city in the far north of the country. The blanket toss, which sees a hapless Frank propelled high in the air. is also real, and forms part of the Inuit Olympics.

 The part where the gang loot from Indian Grave houses is kind of true. Its just in one spot in Alaska, and it seems to be a refuge for the deceased persons soul rather than house artefacts from their life. 

The Kooniak river doesn't exist, though its probably based on the Kodiak river which does. Do not hold me to that, I can't find any info on it.

Anyway, the original and UK edition are mostly the same. The UK gets some continuity edits, a line about Wildcat swamp is cut as the book has yet to occur in our timeline, and some unfamiliar terms and Americanisms are cut. 

The rewrite tones down Fleetfoot so he doesn't sound like a heap big stereotypcial Native American. It also performs some edits for space and clarity. 

You can find the original here and UK version here. 

Edit. With this all done I'd like to say whoever did this put in the research. Pioneer trading talk, proper place names for most of the area and a revised edit that isn't too bad for once. 

Rewrite version is available here.