Leslie A. Viereck (1930-2008)

摘要

Les Viereck was born on 20 February 1930 in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Undergraduate urges for adventure led Les and two friends from Dartmouth to drive a Model A Ford to Alaska in 1948. By happenstance, after the briefest of interviews with the legendary Cap Lathrop, a colorful and enormously successful Alaskan pioneer and entrepreneur, Les was employed that summer at Lathrop’s Suntrana coal mine. However, he spent his days off at Denali National Park, and when he returned the following year, the colorful Grant Pearson, then park superintendent, hired him as ranger for Wonder Lake.