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Vern Gorst: The Grandfather of United Air Lines

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In 1896, twenty-year-old Vern Centennial Gorst went to Alaska to mine gold. His talent for transportation surfaced when he developed ways to get miners and supplies to and from their sites...

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Shirley Nelson