The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-06
NELLIE NEAL
BOUND SOUTH
ON LONG TRIP
To Make Good Will Tour,
Also Have Book of Ex-
periences Printed


Nellie Neal of Alaska in person
and in manuscript, passed through
Juneau southbound on the steamer
Gen. w. G. Gorgas, enroute from
her Lawing home. and bent on a
good will tour that will take her
through most of the States of the
Union.
Mrs. Nellie Neal Lawing, renowned
operator of the Dead Horse Road
House, at what is now known as
Curry, and which was at its height
in the days of the building of the
Alaska Railroad, has written book
of her adventures since she first
left her home at st. Joe, Missouri,
and made her way through the gold
rush days at Cripple Creek, Colo,
to finally find the end of her wan
behring's in Alaska.
The book, on which she has spent
her nights for the past five years,
following her days of working out
side, on the road, or in the timber,
develops childhood dream, pictures
its steady growth until its final full
fillment when she and Mr.. Lawing
settled at Lawing.
% Years Experience
The experiences of her % years
in Westward Alaska are pictured in
detail, just as they live vividly in
her memory The days before the
coming of the railroad to Dead
Horse, the building of the railroad
and the men who built it, and all
that came after. All is in her book,
each chapter of which is prefaced
by poem of her own writing which
expresses the spirit in which it was
lived.
Photographs of her own taking il
lustrate each chapter. The coming
of the Harding Presidential party
to the Railroad. is told in both words
and pictures taken on the very
ground
Trophy Collection
Other chapters are devoted to the
building up of the $4,000 trophy col
lection, which is one of the princi-
pal tourist attractions of the Rail-
road Belt, and which Mrs. Lawing
has decided to the Territory ON her
death, to be kept unbroken. in It's
present state. Many are the thrill
ing encounters she describes with
wild animals whose skins and heads
now form a part of the collection.
Several times she and her husband
were seriously wounded before the
trophies were collected.
Many years of full living and five
years of writing went into the
manuscript of Nellie Neal of Al
aska," which Nellie Neal is carry
ing with her south, and which she
wishes to have published by Pea
cock and Company of Seattle.
Tour 20 States
In 1928, Nellie Neal and Mr.. Law
ing made a good will tour of %
States, extolling Alaska before
chambers of commerce. Now, after
bearing the deaths of her husband,
three of her brothers and three of
her sisters during the past year,
Nellie Neal plans to repeat that
tour. She is alread engaged to speak
before many women's clubs.
With only the youngest of her
brothers and sisters still living, Mrs.
Lawing plans to visit her old home
at st. Joe, and see again members
of her family and old friends, there
and in Kansas City and st. Louis.
After arriving in Seattle and at
tending to the bushes of having
her book published, Nellie Neal will
go to San Diego then across the
country to the Southern States
where she will visit her husbands
friends and relatives In Tallahassee.
Fla. Atlanta, Ga, Chattanooga
Tenn. Then after visiting her own
people in Missouri. she will com
plete her tour through Ogden,
Utah; Denver, Colo; Seattle, and
back to LaWinp. Alaska