Winter rescue: Saving the teacher’s life — Part 4
AUTHOR’S NOTE: On Nov. 20, 1927, Ninilchik schoolteacher John Bess Howe accidentally shot herself in the abdomen while cleaning a gun. After waiting in pain for several days, she was transported to an Anchorage hospital, where she was operated on and convalesced for about a month. Next, she was transferred by train, steamship and ambulance to a hospital in S
