Leland Allinger
Leland Allinger was a renowned wrangler. He and Darrell Duensing worked on the construction of the Alaska Highway in the early 1940s. They bought the Burwash Lodge after owner Eugene Jacquot died in 1950. Allinger built an underground barn that housed fifty head of cattle on the property.1) The cattle usually ranged outside the underground barn. The Allingers (Leland and Betty) had a hayfield at Burwash and another big one at Copper Joe Creek. They had haybarns surrounded by electric fence at Burwash and the village kids used the barns as a playground. Betty Allinger was Finnish and she had a sauna. The Allingers were active in the Burwash community, taking people into Whitehorse and across the lake when they wanted or needed to visit family.2)