Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 4: Lars Matt Olson Sept. 25-28, 2019 ABOVE – Cape Nome, Alaska, 1900. Wikipedia photo. BELOW – Nome, Alaska, circa 1905-8. Wikipedia photo. OLSON OF THE DEEP EXPERIENCE NOME, ALASKA -- 1899 PART 4 And so Olson’s story continues. A story of his life would really be – as an old pioneer in Seward told me – a history of Alaska. Because Olson has never succeeded he has been everywhere and tried everything. I have not done him justice in my abridgment of his Nome story. His recollections are so intimate. He remembers the words spoken in every situation and never, no matter how much and adventure centers around himself, does he depart from what he tells of himself from his character as I know him. Rockwell Kent in Wilderness, Monday, December 9, 1918. Yesterday was Olson’s day for celebrating and many times we drank to the New Year together. But...

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 3: Lars Matt Olson and His Stay in Vermont with the Kents Sept. 21-23, 2019 ABOVE – Olson mentions Tom Boswell quite a bit in the story I’ve been retelling in the last few entries. Further down you’ll read about him meeting Boswell in 1897 in Seattle, ten years after their prospecting trip into the Yukon and Alaska. We can attest to the reliability of Olson’s memory from this ad in the Feb. 2, 1897 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Boswell is cashing in on all his experience by selling advice to the stampeders flooding into Seattle on their way to the Klondike Gold Rush. BELOW – Photo Source:   https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/bennett.html OLSON OF THE DEEP EXPERIENCE PART 3 {CONTINUED FROM PART I AND PART 2 }     Now having crossed the bay, thick wooded coast confronted us, and we worked eastward toward a wide-mouthed inlet of that sh...