AUTHOR’S NOTE: The two most deadly years for people on or near Tustumena Lake were 1965 and 1975. This series…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Records indicate that the two most deadly years for people on or near Tustumena Lake were 1965 and…
A Splendid, Dangerous Place
Although Warren Melville Nutter was a resident of Seward for most of the 1930s, the latter 1940s and the early…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Warren Melville Nutter spent the final 32 years of his life on the Kenai Peninsula, working mainly as…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After more than two decades serving in the military and teaching in various classrooms, Warren Melville Nutter came…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: On the Kenai Peninsula, Warren Melville Nutter would become known primarily as a premiere bounty trapper of coyotes,…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Warren Melville Nutter — known by many residents of the Kenai Peninsula as “William” or “Bill” — came…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: My search for Warren Melville Nutter began as part of a book project with former backcountry ranger Gary…
In 1880, before anyone was recorded as a resident on Tustumena Lake, the U.S. Census noted the general sparseness of…
Few people these days would associate the word “cosmopolitan” with Tustumena Lake, and for good reason. The lake is part…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Sometimes it seems as though the resolution of a criminal investigation, the resulting hearings or trials, and the…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: During the evening of Jan. 19, 1948, in Kenai, William Franke shot dead Ethen Cunningham near Cunningham’s home…
One early December morning in the old cabin, the Frankes were having breakfast when Cunningham stormed over.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: During the evening of Jan. 19, 1948, in Kenai, William Franke shot dead Ethen Cunningham near Cunningham’s home…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Ethen Cunningham came to the Kenai Peninsula in about 1940. He homesteaded along the lower Kenai River and…
