Color image of Dorothy Molter and John Kimbler bottling root beer, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1970s.

Dorothy Molter bottling root beer

Dorothy Molter and John Kimbler bottling root beer, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1970s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform, ca. late 1920s.

Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform

Dorothy Molter in a nurse’s uniform, ca. late 1920s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter at her eighth grade graduation, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1920.

Dorothy Molter in eighth grade

Dorothy Molter at her eighth grade graduation, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1920.

Black and white photograph of Dorthy Molter in high school, ca. 1925.

Dorothy Molter in high school

Dorothy Molter’s high school graduation portrait, ca. 1925.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1960s.

Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe

Dorothy Molter lifting a pack out of a canoe, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1960s.

Color image of Dorothy Molter with her Polaris Mustang snowmobile, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1970s.

Dorothy Molter with her Polaris Mustang snowmobile

Dorothy Molter with her Polaris Mustang snowmobile, Isle of Pines, Knife Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, ca. 1970s.

Black and white photograph of Dorothy Molter holding a lake trout, ca. 1940s.

Dorothy Molter with trout

Dorothy Molter holding a lake trout, ca. 1940s.

Dorsey Willis

Dorsey Willis

Dorsey Willis in December 1972. Photograph by John Croft for the Minneapolis Tribune. From box 317 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Dorsey Willis at his honorable discharge ceremony

Dorsey Willis at his honorable discharge ceremony

Dorsey Willis (second from right) with family members at a ceremony granting him an honorable discharge from the US Army on February 11, 1973. The Army had dishonorably discharged Willis in 1906 for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville Incident. Olive Willis (Dorsey’s wife) stands to his left. Photograph by Larry Schreiber for the Minneapolis Star. From box 346 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Dorsey Willis being interviewed

Dorsey Willis being interviewed

Dorsey Willis interviewed in January 1974. United Press International (UPI) photographs collection, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Chapman University.

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