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A Remarkable Journey from the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream |
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| Dawn of a Dream |
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Melvin at Lee School, Capitol Hill, Oklahoma. |
10-year-old Melvin, Oklahoma, 1926.
Melvin sees a photo in his fourth-grade geography book of a cabin in
the Alaska wilderness. The photo sparks his dream |
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Melvin and Cecil, Oklahoma, 1941. Melvin marries Cecil Marie in 1940, who shares his Alaska dream. |
Melvin as Captain of a Boeing Crash Boat on Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1944. |
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Camping in British Columbia during the family's first driving trip to Alaska the summer of 1961. |
Immediately following the 1961 trip to
Alaska, Melvin builds the first boat he hopes to take to Alaska.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the completed boat is sold to a Texas fisherman
and subsequently destroyed |
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The summer of 1968, Melvin and Cecil
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Melvin and Cecil at a roadside picnic area, Alaska, 1968. |
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Soon after returning home from their 1968 trip, Melvin begins construction of the second boat he hopes to take to Alaska, the Red Dog. |
| Melvin at Haines, Alaska. |
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