AUTHOR’S NOTE: In the first three parts of this story, William Dempsey, who confessed to killing two Alaskans in 1919,…
The lines of history are most accurately understood in retrospect.
Anchorage authorities believed Dempsey was planning to sail from Seward and flee to the States
In early spring 1965, there were loose ends to tie up …
It was normal for Dr. John Fenger to receive phone calls when someone in Homer needed medical attention.
In the early days of formal medicine in Homer, doctors and dentists were often forced to improvise.
William Dempsey and two other men slipped away from the rest of the prison road gang on fog-enshrouded McNeil Island, Washington, on Jan. 30, 1940
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Part One introduced William N. “Bill” Dawson as a spinner of yarns who came to the Kenai Peninsula…
Toeing the Line
“… If I were to designate the meanest character I ever met, I should name ‘Old Bible Bill,’ an Ozarkian.”
William N. “Bill” Dawson was a spinner of yarns who came to the Kenai Peninsula in the 1890s
Her quest for Alaska had begun, but another date with tragedy lay just around the corner
Mathers was dead.