The wooly mammoth’s tusk at the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture was a gift, through the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, of five UT students who spent the summer of 1956 working in Alaska in a gold mine. Knox Williams, Gene Fair, John D’Armand, George Dominick, and Paul Dominick drove from Knoxville to Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, and worked for the Fairbanks Expedition of United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company. The tusk was uncovered during the digging and was being carried off by a worker, when the UT students purchased it for $3. It returned to Knoxville lashed to the top of D’Armand’s father’s 1949 Packard.