Name: Ginger the saddle horse is rescued after being trapped by a storm, 1956
Start: 1956-04
End: 1956-04
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1956-04
Kind: Rescue
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitytransportationdisaster
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

After a major storm, Olive Dillingham’s saddle horse Ginger went missing and was trapped between two trees. The April 1956 Beaver Beacon reports that Joe McPhillips spotted the horse from the air and directed Joe Dillingham and Pete to the rescue site; Ginger was alive but very thin after roughly two weeks.

Evidence and limits

This is a contemporary community report. It does not provide a flight log, rescue report, veterinary record, or complete identity record for the people named.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 1956, “Joe McPhillips.”
Reports Joe McPhillips locating Olive Dillingham’s missing saddle horse, Ginger, from the air after the animal became wedged between two trees during the storm; Joe Dillingham and Pete rescued the horse after about two weeks. It does not provide an aircraft log, rescue report, veterinary record, or complete identity record for the people named. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 1956, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published rescue report; it does not expand the animal, aviation, or veterinary record.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Ginger the saddle horse is rescued after being trapped by a storm, 1956”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ginger-horse-rescue-1956/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1956, “Joe McPhillips.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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