1st Lieutenant John S. Kulp (left) and Captain Edwin F. Glenn (right), wearing dark glasses and snowshoes, pose for a photograph at Portage Bay on Prince William Sound. Photograph taken by Walter C. Mendenhall during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...
"My cold weather outfit. Beaver cap, Caribou coat, moose hide fur trimmed mittens, woolen pants, moosehide moccasins and on the snowshoes made for me by Sarah Bob one of the Ketchumstuk tribe squaws of the Forty Mile Indians. These snow shoes are...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...