This source quotes Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1933," H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 423. The Polar Times October 1938 p 17 "Swenson, '14 hero of arctic, is found slain" Thomas, Bob. (2001) "Where did they come from and what did they look like? Part II" The International Siberian Husky Club, NEWS, September/October. Thrapp, Dan L., (1991) "Eielson, Carl Ben(jamin)" Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F, U of Nebraska Press, , p456. Tichotsky, John (2000) Russia's diamond colony: the republic of Sakha Routledge, p 72 United States Census 1880, 1900, Manistee, Michigan at Familysearch.org Washington digital archives. http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/ (a) query Washington death records, Olaf Swenson, 1938. (b) query Washington death records, Marion Ferguson, 1951. Accessed April 10, 2009. (c) query King County marriage records, Olaf Swenson, 1904, accessed Jan 21, 2010. (d) query marriage records under "Detailed Search" Thomas Ferguson, Marion Swenson; accessed March 1, 2013. Wedding was Nov. 11, 1937 and Marjorie Swenson was a witness. West, Ellsworth Luce (1965) as told to Eleanor Ransom Mayhew. Captain's papers: a log of whaling and other sea experiences; Barre Publishers, Barre, MA Further reading Yarzutkina, Anastasia A. Trade on_the_Icy_Coasts. The management of_American traders in the settlements of Chukotka Native Inhabitants. Terra Sebus: Acta Musei Sabesiensis Special issue. Russian Studies. From the early Middle Ages to the Present Day. Sorin Armire, Cristian Ioan Popa, Maxim Trushin, eds. 2014, pp. 361-381 Sablin, Ivan. Interactions and Elites in Late Pre-Soviet and Early Soviet Chukotka, 1900–1931 Social Evolution & History. 12(1) March 2013 (not a direct link; search title) Rytkheu, Yuri, trans. by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (fiction) A Dream in Polar Fog (Archipelago Books, 2006). Crichton, Clarke. Frozen-in! (Putnam, 1930) account of the 1929-30 voyage of the Nanuk Swenson, Olaf. Northwest of the world; forty years trading and hunting in northern Siberia (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944 ) External links Alaska archives photo of Marion and Olaf Swenson, North Cape, 1930 The accompanying caption lists this as March 1930 but it is either earlier or not at North Cape or both. The New York Times has Marion Swenson back in Seattle March 1. Maps useful in identifying locations in Northwest of the World: Map showing tribal locations with discussion of languages, Alaska and northeastern Siberia. Northern Yakutsk map 1882 Siberia map 1908 1883 births 1938 deaths American fur traders 20th-century American memoirists American people of Swedish descent American people of Norwegian descent