Northwest History. Alaska, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Alaska; Mrs. Wiley Post; Will Rogers; Point Barrow; death; Charles Brower; Joe Crosson; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92112

Mrs. Post Will Fly To Graves. MRS. POST WILL FLY TO GRAVES FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(U.R)— Mrs. Wiley Post awaited clearing weather here Tuesday before flying over the same route which her husband and Will Rogers took when they crashed to death near bleak Point Barrow, Alaska, August 15, 1935. Light rains and overcast skies prevailed here and it was cloudy at Point Barrow. Awaiting them at Point Barrow was Charles Brower, veteran Point Barrow commissioner, who will join the party in' planting two 250-pound, five feet high iron crosses at the Joe Crosson, who flew the bodies of Post and Rogers from Point Barrow back to the states, will pilot the plane carrying Mrs. Post. A veteran flier, hero of many mercy expeditions, he planned to take every precaution in flying over 500 miles of mountainous country.