Northwest History. Alaska, Glaciers. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: bombs; Alaska ice; Mark Twain; Fairbanks; Black Rapids Glacier; roadhouse; the Richardson Highway; Otto William Geist; University of Alaska; America; Big Delta River; Interior Alaska; glacier; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Alaska; Delta River; Pacific; Two Mile; glaciers
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92216

Bombs Useless Against Field Of Alaska Ice: Page Shade Of Mark Twain; He May Want To Take A Ride. BOMBS USELESS AGAINST FIELD OF ALASKA ICE Page Shade of Mark Twain; He May Want To Take a Ride FAIRBANKS—Dynamiting of Black Rapids Glacier to prevent its advance i on a roadhouse and the Richardson Highway would be as ineffective "as an attack by fireflies." Otto William Geist, recording the glacier's movements for the University of Alaska, said recently. "There are not enough bombs or dynamite in America to even make an impression on the main body of the glacier, and if all of them were dropped at once, they would be as ineffective in destroying the colossal mass as an attack by fire-flies," Geist The glacier continued its slow, steady movement down the Big Delta River valley, 125 miles south of here, threatening to dam the two-mile-wide river, destroy a roadhouse, and block the highway, Interior Alaska's only highway outlet to the coast. The glacier was slightly more than a mile from the house.