Word: thorsen
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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During the late fall of 1927 an Eskimo youth found a piece of heavy, bright metal in an unnamed creek (later called Fox Gulch) about nine miles south from the southerly side of Goodnews Bay, on lower Kuskokwim Bay, and gave this nugget to Chas. Thorsen, a gold minor of that section. Thorsen sent some to the Alaska School of Mines, Fairbanks for analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made...
...internationally for college and California. A Beta at the University of California, Horace played guard on the football team until a back injury forced him out of the sport. He organized a band among his classmates was graduated in 1925, and has been a hit band leader since. Art Thorsen, player and vocalist in the band was a U of C. Kappa Delta Rho and glee club man 26, Jerry Browne trumpeteer and singer a U. of C. Phi Sigma Kappa 27, Warren Lewis, U. of C. 27. All three have remained with the Brigadiers through then smart career...