During the summer of 1935, Wiley Post and the famous American humorist, Will Rogers, ventured north to the territory. From left to right, Rogers, famous Alaskan musher Leonhard Seppala, Post, and famous bush pilot Joe Crosson stand near Post's Lockheed monoplane on a floatplane dock on the Chena River near Fairbanks. Against Crosson's advice, Post and Rogers pushed on from there and died in an airplane crash near Barrow.