Forshaug, Jens H.]]> Alaska]]> Gold mines and mining]]> Reindeer]]> St. Olaf College]]> Wisconsin]]>
According to an article in "Decorah Posten," Sept. 18, 1958, Forshaug was born in Wisconsin to emigrant parents (1911); he studied at St. Olaf College and the Univ. of Alaska. When 27 he sought gold near Nome, "but one year was enough for him." He became a reindeer inspector at Barrow, and did many other kinds of work, "most interesting is his beginning book in English for Indians [Native Americans], which he called "'min røde bog.'"

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