Collection Name	Slim Williams Papers
Identifier	UAF-2007-59-21
Title	Slim and the old Indian chief, 60 miles east of Big Delta.
Description	Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized mushing trip from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington D.C. to prove the feasibility of a road linking Alaska to the contiguous United States. In 1939, he repeated the journey on motorcycles with travel companion John Logan. A road was later built during WWII as the Al-can Highway. Image shows Williams standing with an Athabaskan chief at Healy Lake, posing for a photograph. Log cabins and a cache are visible in the background. See related video clip AAF-5216 for more views of the Healy Lake visit.
Subject.TGM	Men Older people Beards Travel Expeditions & surveys Villages Indigenous peoples Log cabins Log buildings Tribal chiefs
Subject.Local	Alaska Natives--Interior Alaska--Athabascan Caches
Personal Name	Williams, Slim, b. 1881 or 2
Location	Healy Lake (Alaska)
Region	Interior Alaska
Time Period	1913 to 1939 1939 to 1959
Date	1939
Type	Image (Photographs) Image (Group portraits)
Relation	Healy River, AAF-5216: http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg11,7175
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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Slim and the old Indian chief, 60 miles east of Big Delta.

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