By: Tom Dove

Tom Dove
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:40:55 +0000

Thanks for posting that wonderful pic of my mother in her parka.

One addition/correction from the story she told me several times: They rode in the President’s Car with the president of the Alaska Railroad from some point on the coast, perhaps Seward, to the river town of Nenana. A river boat ran down to the Yukon river, where they transferred to an open boat for the 1000-mile run down the Yukon. The boat had an outboard motor for power and a native to run it.