tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717352.post5776589355569342008..comments2023-10-29T21:52:02.034-08:00Comments on Backstage Iditarod: Don Bowers' History of the Iditarod TrailUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717352.post-71721626509629104602011-06-28T00:18:03.440-08:002011-06-28T00:18:03.440-08:00Should have been 6/27/2011 on comment.
George Han...Should have been 6/27/2011 on comment. <br />George Hanson in GirdwoodUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05533508072964370356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26717352.post-48130992280662485022011-06-28T00:12:39.410-08:002011-06-28T00:12:39.410-08:006/27/2010 How timely. I attended the Alaska Prospe...6/27/2010 How timely. I attended the Alaska Prospectors Society meeting last week for the first time where I met Pencia Beaton whos grandfather was the John Beaton that made the discovery of gold at Iditarod in 1908 in your article. Her father or grandfather started Star Airways who my father Virgil Hanson worked for in the 1930's. My father was the first radio technition hired by McGee Airlines which later became Star Airways and later Alaska Airlines. My mother Josephine "Lila" Hugh was the first Caucasion born in the Matanuska Valley at Knik according to an article in the Frontiersman. I tried to get her to purchase Lot #1 of the foot square lots they were selling some years ago when they were beginning to promote the Iditarod Race but she shied away. My relatives were users of the early Alaskan trails. I really enjoyed your article on the Iditarod, thank you so much!<br />George Hanson in GirdwoodUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05533508072964370356noreply@blogger.com