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Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Larson Back After 11,000 Mile Tour of West and Northland Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Larson, 312 N. St. John’s avenue returned recently from an 11,000 mile motor and boat trip through the west and up the Pacific coast to Seattle and thence to Alaska, where they covered much territory by motor, visiting the prin cipal towns and scenic points and visited Mr. Larson’s brother, Ray Larson, who has been in Alaska since 1900 and resides at Anchorage. Alaska is familiar territory to Os car Larson, who is one of the prin cipals of the firm of Larson Bros., operating a large garage at First street and Laurel avenue. He first went to Alaska in the famous gold rush of 1897 and spent eight or nine years there, returning during that time in the winter of 1899-1900, at which time his brother went back to the territory with him and has since lived there. Ray Larson is proprie tor of the Alaska Transfer company at Anchorage. “King Oscar” Oscar Larson, who was known to the sourdoughs of the gold rush days as “King Oscar” had many an inter esting and thrilling experience in those pioneer years in the cold north land and tells interestingly of the trials and hardships, the joys and the heartaches of that epic period when fortunes were won and lost in a day and all the stirring colorful story of the days when the lure of gold dragged men by the thousands over the passes and into the unknown wilds in search of fortune and ad venture. Mrs. Larson, too, knows her Al aska, having gone there as Miss Bes sie Workman, a young girl, with her parents, from Quincy, Ir. in 1898, and at Valdez, Alaska, she and Mr. Lar son were married in the fall of 1905. No wonder they are interested in the territory, and that explains why they have made two trips back to the old scenes in the last few years. Started in May This year they started May 5 in the big Lincoln car, going by the south ern route through Texas, Arizona and California to Seattle; thence north as far as Vancouver, Canada, and then back to Seattle, where they boarded the fine steamer, Aleutian, car and all, bound for Valdez, Alaska. The water trip was made through the scenic inland route, between the islands and the mainland all the way north to the gulf of Alaska, and the beauties of this route are beyond description, Mr. Larson declares. He (Continued on page 13)
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Highland Park Press
Highland Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 04, 1930
Page 32
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