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Gloria McNutt

Gloria McNutt was born in 1926 in San Antonio, Texas. After finishing high school, she worked in the offices of two different local airline companies. In 1952, she married her husband, Raymon "Mac" McNutt, who was from nearby Stockdale, Texas, and they came to Alaska. The McNutts lived in Anchorage, and homesteaded in Sterling and Chisana, Alaska. Gloria worked as the postmaster at Sterling for many years, and spent part of the summer helping her husband run his guiding business at Chisana and Horsfeld, all while also raising her children. At one point, she also ran her own bed and breakfast in an old 1935 buiding in Chisana. In 1989, after Gloria retired from the post office, she and Ray spent three years living at Chisana full-time. They then moved to Anchorage, where Gloria lived until her death. Ray McNutt retired from guiding in 2003 at the age of 78, and he died in 2005. Gloria McNutt passed away in July 2015. For more about Gloria, see her obituary in the Peninsula Clarion newspaper.

Date of Birth:

Jul 23, 1926

Date of Death:

Jul 29, 2015

Gloria McNutt appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Wrangell-St.Elias National Park

Gloria McNutt's Slideshow

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Gloria McNutt, Part 1	Gloria McNutt was interviewed on January 23, 2015 by Karen Brewster and Rachel Mason at her home in Anchorage, Alaska. Gloria's daughter, Terry Stone, assisted with the interview and added her own memories to the discussion. Terry's husband, Roger, was also present during parts of the interview. In this first part of a two part interview, Gloria talks about living in Texas and moving to Alaska, living on a homestead in Sterling, Alaska and working for the post office there. Then, she mostly she talks about her husband's guiding business based out of Chisana and Horsfeld in the Wrangell St. Elias Mountains. She talks about living at Chisana, helping with the groceries and food, running a bed and breakfast, changes in the wildlife populations, and the relationship between guides and the National Park Service. Gloria also looks at old photographs of their homestead at Chisana and talks about the various buildings and what life was like there.	2013-14-15_PT.1	Wrangell-St.Elias National Park	Jan 23, 2015
Gloria McNutt, Part 2	This is a continuation of the interview with Gloria McNutt on January 23, 2015 by Karen Brewster and Rachel Mason at her home in Anchorage, Alaska. Gloria's daughter, Terry Stone, assisted with the interview and added her own memories to the discussion. Terry's husband, Roger, was also present during parts of the interview. In this second part of a two part interview, Gloria continues to talk about her husband's guiding business based out of Chisana and Horsfeld in the Wrangell St. Elias Mountains. She talks about the areas used for hunting, making a living from guiding and changes in the guiding business. She also talks about living on a homestead and how her husband cared for the horses he used in guiding.	2013-14-15_PT.2	Wrangell-St.Elias National Park	Jan 23, 2015