﻿THE 
  FIRST 
  ALASKAN 
  AIR 
  EXPEDITION 
  

  

  549 
  

  

  'j*r 
  

  

  ii 
  

  

  51 
  !1 
  

  

  i 
  

  

  READY 
  FOR 
  THE 
  FINAL 
  LAP 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  TO 
  NOME 
  FLIGHT 
  

  

  The 
  sand-bar 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  picture 
  is 
  six 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  Ruby. 
  So 
  eager 
  were 
  the 
  Indians 
  

   to 
  see 
  the 
  airplanes 
  that 
  they 
  nocked 
  into 
  Ruby 
  days 
  before 
  the 
  arrival 
  of 
  the 
  expedition, 
  and 
  

   their 
  demands 
  upon 
  the 
  community's 
  larder 
  threatened 
  to 
  bring 
  about 
  a 
  famine. 
  

  

  Photograph;, 
  by 
  U. 
  S. 
  Air 
  Service 
  

   A, 
  METROPOLIS 
  ON 
  THE 
  YUKON: 
  RUBY, 
  ALASKA 
  

  

  