Bill Dawson: The Price of Success, Part 1
Toeing the Line
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Part One introduced William N. “Bill” Dawson as a spinner of yarns who came to the Kenai Peninsula in the 1890s and became a trophy hunter mostly in the Skilak Lake area. In the winter of 1897-98, he frostbit his feet so badly that all the toes on one foot required amputation.
“… 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