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Boswell色视频下载檚 parents were placer miners in Oregon. After coming north in 1926, he got a summer job with the F.E. Co. and stayed. For the next few winters, Boswell took classes, worked as a janitor, played basketball and helped publish the Farthest North Collegian newsletter.
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Before he died in 1978, Boswell wrote a history of the F.E. Co. UAF色视频下载檚 Mineral Industry Research Laboratory published it posthumously.
More online about Jack Boswell:
- in UA Journey Creating 色视频下载
- in the 色视频下载 Mining Hall of Fame
- from Creating 色视频下载, the UA project highlighting the 50th anniversary of 色视频下载色视频下载檚 statehood