Slim Williams

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World Famous Alaskan Wolf-Dog Musher and International Trail-Blazer

America's Leading Authority on Alaska

Thrilling Adventure Authentic Information

The Platform's Most Colorful and Picturesque Personality


SLIM WILLIAMS
Presenting Outstanding Lectures on Alaska With New Color Films

THE REDPATH BUREAU
KIMBALL BUILDING
Chicago 4, Ill.
Phone: Harrison 7-8723

24 W. 45th St., Suite 5-N
New York 19, N. Y.
Phone: MUrray Hill 7-7073




CLYDE C. (SLIM) WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL TRAIL BLAZER AND GREAT PLATFORM STAR
CLYDE C. (Slim) WILLIAMS, world-famed Alaskan wolf-dog musher and trail-blazer, has become one of the outstanding successes on the American platform.  His style of speech is sincere, rugged and straightforward.  He is a philosopher with a keen sense of humor.  Thirty-two years in the open spaces of Alaska and the Far North have given him a knowledge of that country unequalled by anyone.  He is the spirit of Alaska and the American Arctic.  During the past three years he has made two eventful journeys to Alaska.  He drove the Alcan Highway.  He took pictures in color of his old haunts, the Yukon, Alcan Highway, etc., and will offer complete new illustrated programs for the coming season.



From Alaska to U. S. by Motorcycle
In the interest of a much needed international highway, Slim made his second adventurous journey from Alaska to U. S. in 1939, leaving Fairbanks on May 14th and arriving in Seattle on December 7th.  This time it was by motorcycle.  And to top it all, Slim shot some unusual and thrilling color film of his own Alaska and the Yukon.  Slim Williams is still crusading for an adequate highway to Alaska.  His latest journey was over the Alcan Highway by automobile.



Drives Dogs 5,600 Miles in 1932–33
For more than four decades Danger and Slim Williams have walked hand in hand.  He is unafraid.  That is why Jack London made Slim the dominant character in his story, Burning Daylight.  Because he liked to play with Danger, this picturesque Alaskan pioneer, musher, miner, big game hunter, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer drove his dogs 5,600 miles in 1932 and 1933 from Copper Center, Alaska, to Washington, D. C., to plead for the Alaskan-Canadian International Highway.  Approximately 1,800 miles was through frozen, uncharted wilderness.  When Slim arrived in Washington with his wolf-dogs, President Roosevelt was so interested he had several interviews with Slim. Mrs. Roosevelt described her meeting with Slim Williams at A Century of Progress in Chicago as the most enjoyable part of her visit.



Receives Columns of Publicity
Newspapers everywhere have given Slim Williams columns of publicity as the greatest trail blazer of our time.  The Christian Science Monitor in a long featured story stated that The name of Slim Williams may go down in history as one of the greatest trail blazers of North America.  The Washington Post said, If you remember Jack London's 'Burning Daylight,' the fastest mushing sourdough who ever carried mail from Circle City to Dawson, you will appreciate Slim Williams.



Lecture Subjects:

TO ALASKA THE ALCAN WAY
BLAZING AN INTERNATIONAL TRAIL
THE RICH RESOURCES OF ALASKA
ALASKA — OUR LAST FRONTIER

(All Lectures with or without motion pictures in natural color as desired)



Picturesque, Colorful — Holds Audience Spellbound
The Flint Industrial Executives Club, W. E. Milner.

Over 2,000 Flint Industrial Executives welcomed Slim Williams back on his second appearance on our program.  He periodically kept his listeners chuckling over the humorous events that occurred on his trip.  His second visit was enjoyed as much as his first, and his moving pictures were splendid.

Shorewood Opportunity School, Shorewood, Wis., H. M. Genskow

Slim Williams is a natural on the platform.  He is a man who has lived the story he is talking about and you know it is a part of him as he is telling it.  He gives a story that is crammed full of information in an entertaining and outdoor style.  The tremendous applause he received and the crowds that gathered back-stage indicate how well we liked him.

University of Dayton, Rev. Francis J. Friedel, S.M.

The student audience responded splendidly to his talk.  There is a fine sense of humor in Slim Williams that captivated our men and women.  His directness is fascinating.

Extract from letter of John W. Troy, Governor of Alaska to Premier T. D. Pattullo of British Columbia

This letter will introduce you to C. C. Williams, pioneer of Alaska and the North, who is undertaking to make a motorcycle trip over the proposed line of the Alaska and Yukon Highway.  Slim Williams is one of those outstanding characters who has contributed so much to the development in the North Country.  He has pioneered it over most of the northern trails, he is a man of brawn and brains who has overcome vast difficulties.

S. W. Oklahoma Teachers Asso., E. Saseen, Sec.

Slim Williams proved to be the headliner on the program.

Benson H. S., Omaha, Neb., Mary McNamara, Prin.

A story book character come to life.  The pupils listened breathlessly to his experiences which were dotted with humor, but underlying it all a philosophy of life that will always stay with the pupils.


Press-Scimitar, Memphis, Tenn.
Goodwyn Institute was host last night to a six-foot, 215 pound Tarzan of the North—a Tarzan who drinks tea and likes it.… Wearing a well-fitted brown business suit, Slim Williams, who has roughed it in Alaska and all over the North, described his adventures and explorations in picturesque language—and the audience begged for more.

Ad Club, Rochester, N. Y., Glenn L. Morrow, Ex. Sec.

The echoes are still reverberating.  Slim certainly did one peach of a job.

The Travelers Club, Hartford, Conn., J. M. Cahill.

We thoroughly enjoyed Slim Williams talk.  We all welcomed the opportunity to hear authentic material regarding Alaska.

Executives' Club, Chicago, A. W. Merrifield, Ex. Sec.

Our audience was enthusiastic and got a kick out of Slim Williams' talk.

University of Minn., Thomas A. H. Teeter.

The audience liked him and we were unable to get him away from his questioners for a whole hour after his lecture.

Mich. State College, E. Lansing, S. E. Crowe.

Excellent.  He is truly a remarkable man.