[A/S] Towing To Alaska with a 1950 John Deere...

["Richard McFarland" <estatewagons@xxxxxxx>]

Hunter - there is a story on the trip in Volume 23 , #2 , 1999
 of Farm & Tractor magazine.

I found the lead on a vintage tractor e-mail site:

http://www.atis.net/antique-tractor/digest/v02.n260

This digest edition is quite long - but there are a lot of inputs regarding
what various people knew about the trip.  (they converted the tractor
seat to hold two people)

"They Drove to Alaska on 1950 John Deere"A" "

http://www.farmshow.com/index/detail.asp?article_id=60013249&source=FARMSHOW

(This is a link to order the article - not the article itself - from the
Farm & Tractor archives.)

So far - I have read that the trailer was an "Airstream-like" trailer - so I
don't know if it was an
actual Airstream - or a similar design.

Apparently Paul Harvey did a story on it - but I can't see where Paul
Harvey's site offers an
archive service.

I can't get the Fairbanks News-Miner archives to pull anything up - maybe
because it's a
fee based service.  It would make sense that if there was a newspaper
article - in Alaska -
it would have been in the News-Miner first as they would have logically
arrived in
Fairbanks first.  I did not find anything on the Anchorage Daily News site.

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Okay - so here is more - the trip was part of "Miles For Missions".

www.milesformissions.org

Click on "The Beginning" and you'll see a photo of the tractor - but
not of the trailer.

In fact there is a book on the trip.

To Alaska On A Tractor
by Glenn and Betty Martin


Thanks for the lead Hunter!

RL