Reminiscences of William R. Sherwin : oral history, 1960.
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Jensen, Sandy,
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Sandy Jensen, a journalist, photographer, and artist, was a member of the Alaska State Press Women. She established correspondence courses for rural Alaskans in amateur radio operation and licensing, helped Native Alaskans establish village cooperatives, recorded Alaskan pioneers and bush pilots, and produced a program on early Alaska aviation for instructional television. From the description of Sandy Jensen Papers 1930-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 309413027 ...
Sherwin, William R.
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William Royce Sherwin (1878-1967) was born in Ailsa Craig, Ontario, and arrived in Skagway, Alaska, in June of 1898. He hiked over White Pass and from there to Lake Bennett and proceeded to the Klondike, where he mined for a number of years around Dawson, Yukon. From Dawson, he went to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1905 and proceeded to the Iditarod. He partnered with Jack Dailey in a mining operation on Flat Creek. After the Iditarod strike he returned to Fairbanks, where he was naturalized in 1914. He...
