Clara Hickman Rust papers, 1904-1978.

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Clara Hickman Rust papers, 1904-1978.

The Clara Hickman Rust Papers contain newspaper clippings on a wide variety of Alaska subjects, a personal file centered around her life and her involvement in community affairs, a file on the Pioneer Women of Alaska, a publications file and a scrapbook with postcards and photographs.

17 ms. boxes 13 cu. ft.

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Murie, Olaus Johan, 1889-1963

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Biologist and field naturalist Olaus Johan Murie (1889-1963), the son of Norwegian immigrants, was born and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota. On completing his studies in zoology and wildlife biology at Oregon's Pacific University in 1912, he became an Oregon state conservation officer. In 1914-1917 he participated in scientific explorations of Hudson Bay and Labrador for the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. He subsequently joined the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey as a wildlife biologist. He spent...

Rust, Clara, 1890-1978

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Clara Hickman Rust was a Fairbanks historian and writer who came to Fairbanks in 1907 to join her father, Zach Hickman, a newspaperman who had come over the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson in 1898 and subsequently founded two newspapers: the Klondike Nugget and the Fairbanks Miner. In 1910 she married Jesse W. Rust in Fairbanks, where she was to live a long and active life, recognized for her participation in local and state affairs. She was a charter member of Pioneer Women of Alaska, served two terms ...

Klondike Nugget.

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Pioneer Women of Alaska.

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