The Importance of Alaska
Feb 8th, 2008 | By Byron King | Category: Commodities
IN THE SUMMER OF 1901, THE U.S. ARMY assigned a young first lieutenant named William Lendrum Mitchell (1879-1936) to a distant post in Alaska. Mitchell (his friends called him “Billy”) had a tough job in front of him. His task was to oversee the construction of a telegraph line from ...read more
