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SEPT 21-23, 2019 PART 3 OLSON IN NOME, ALASKA, AND HIS OTHER STORIES

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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 shore { Humpy Co