Black and white view of a plane in flight.
Caption: (1) and (3) New York to Nome Airplanes - a "hedge-hopping" cross-country flight about 1919 or 1920. The first planes we had ever seen. They landed in a cow pasture in West Dawson. Note hay bales for field markers. The planes "hedge-hopped" from Dawson to Nome and then all the way back to New York,. It must be remembered that there was no organized system of nationwide airfields, no navigation guidance or controls, no night flying , no distribution system for fuel or lubricants.