Connected to a Klondike
Mar 28, 2022
3 minutes
By Barb Steinhorst
“A one-of-a-kind,” says Jean Prince when describing her 92-year-old grandfather, Gilbert Burmester, of Loganville, Wis. Her description comes from her grandfather’s serious obsession with local history, and his lifelong passion for rescuing and resurrecting big, old trucks, such as Macks, Internationals and the sole surviving Klondike.
The life of the last Klondike
Way back in Loganville’s history, before Gilbert was born, the busy little village in Sauk County, Wis., had a reputation in the area as a truck-building town. In 1915, Fred W. Kohlmeyer, a mechanical genius of renown,
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