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Father Bellarmine LaFortune, Luther Hess, E.B. Collins, and Judge Cecil H. Clegg are interviewed by Al Bramstedt in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1947 [sound recording].
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Father Bellarmine LaFortune, Luther Hess, E.B. Collins, and Judge Cecil H. Clegg are interviewed by Al Bramstedt in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1947 [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.) : analog.
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Recorded in Fairbanks, Alaska in August and September 1947.
Abstract:
On Side I, Father Bellarmine LaFortune, a 78-year-old Jesuit priest, is interviewed on August 6, 1947 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Fairbanks. He talks about coming to Nome in 1903, epidemics that took place in 1900 and 1918, seasonal rounds of the Siberian Yupik on the Diomede Islands, King Islanders, and Roald Amundsen. Luther Hess, a lawyer, is interviewed on August 13, 1947. Luther talks about coming to Alaska for the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, climbing the Chilkoot Pass, making a boat to sail to Dawson, arrival in Dawson, continuing on to Eagle, Fairbanks in 1903, Sam Bonnifield, forming the First National Bank in 1905, and the economic future of Fairbanks.
On Side II, E.B. Collins is recorded September 16,1947 giving a speech about early Fairbanks history and about the history of the Pioneers of Alaska. Judge Cecil H. Clegg is interviewed on September 24, 1947. Clegg talks about coming to Nome in 1900 on the steamship Ohio, smallpox quartine, working in the law office of Judge Charles S. Johnson defending the original stakers of Anvil and Dexter Creeks against claim jumpers (this case was described in Rex Beach's book, The Spoilers), appointed first U.S. Commissioner to Nushagak, serving as assistant district attorney in Valdez and Seward, arrival in Fairbanks in 1907, naturalizing citizens in remote villages, Salchakaket Indians and their beliefs about Harding Lake.
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