Slim Williams

              Popular Lectures on Alaska with Top Color Movies

America's Leading Authority on Alaska

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


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SLIM WILLIAMS
The Platform's Most Colorful and Picturesque Personality

A REDPATH ATTRACTION
THE REDPATH BUREAU
Kimball Building
Chicago 4, Ill.
Phone: Harrison 7-8723

HOWARD HIGGINS
507 Rockingham Street
Rochester 20, New York
Telephone: Hillside 1747




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 five years, Slim and his wife, Gladys, have made three journeys to Alaska.  They took movies in beautiful color of Slim's old haunts in Alaska, the Alcan Highway, the Yukon, etc.  Slim's commentary is delightful, somewhat remindful of the late Will Rogers in style.  There's plenty of humor, keen wit and, sometimes, a bit of well planted sarcasm in his talks.



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.



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.  It was a rugged experience, full of danger.  It dramatized the need for a highway to Alaska.  The Alcan Highway has been built, but in Slim's opinion it is not adequate.  He's still crusading for an adequate highway to Alaska.



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.



Lectures with Beautiful Color Films

TO ALASKA — THE ALCAN WAY
BLAZING AN INTERNATIONAL TRAIL



Lectures without Films

BLAZING AN INTERNATIONAL TRAIL
ALASKA — OUR LAST FRONTIER



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.

South Bend, Ind., Knife & Fork Club, Marshall I. Hewitt, M. D.

His subject was extremely refreshing and his delivery unique enough to make it well received by the entire group.  He lived up to all the favorable comments I have received concerning him.

First Congregational Church, Toledo, O., John C. Walker, D. D., Minister

Thanks for sending Slim Williams.  We had a marvelous crowd—best of the season.  Want him back.

Joliet, Ill., B. & P. Women's Club, Miss L. Deering

One of the most educational and entertaining programs we ever had.

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 roughted 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.

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.

Trinity Sunday Evening Club, Grand Rapids, Mich., Harold B. Harris

Excellent.  He gave us a very fine program.  We had an attendance of 650 people, the best in our current series.