Frenchy was not satisfied and not even close to being finished with big achievements
On Aug. 4, 1892, the Associated Press reported that the revenue cutter Bear had, on June 4, rescued only Peter Viani from the island
In fact, Frenchy’s last name wasn’t even Vian; it was Viani, and he and the rest of his immediate family were pure Italian
The stories were full of high adventure — whaling, mining, polar bear hunting, extensive travel, and the accumulation of wealth
In Kasilof, and on Kachemak Bay, in Seldovia and later in Unga, Petersen worked various jobs before being appointed deputy marshal in 1934
Sometimes timing is everything
“Bob,” he said, “that crazy fool is shooting at us.”
Night Falls on the Daylight Kid—Part One
By Clark Fair
Mathers had only three cents in her purse when she arrived in Kenai
Her quest for Alaska had begun, but another date with tragedy lay just around the corner
Florence Lorraine “Rusty” Lancashire first met her neighbor, the old Goat Woman, in the fall of 1948
Prisoners Frank Charles Oliver and Chester LeRoy Oughton had been foiled in their attempt to reach the central Kenai Peninsula
The fugitives were Franklin Charles Oliver and Chester LeRoy Oughton.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part story about Jimmy Johnson, a commercial fisherman who suffered an ignominious demise on the Kenai… Continue reading
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I would like to thank Peggy Arness for access to her history files and the Resurrection Bay Historical Society for access to its… Continue reading
So many oddities. So many contradictions. So many holes in the story.
How much of the doctor’s actions Bob Huttle knew when he stayed in Cliff House 10 years later is difficult to know.
Here, then, is the story of Cliff House, as least as I know it now.
Here, in Part Two and gleaned from local newspapers, are a few examples of the dim and the dumb.