William H. Ennis journals and letters : ms and ALS, [1865-1869].

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William H. Ennis journals and letters : ms and ALS, [1865-1869].

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Parts 1 and 3 of Ennis' journal (undated) recounting his voyage with the Russian-American Telegraph Exploring Expedition, which set out in 1865 to seek a route from Vancouver Island to Siberia over which Western Union could establish a telegraph line from Europe to America; Ennis' reminiscence of his later journey as supercargo, trader, and agent for the owners of the schooner Caldera, which embarked on a voyage to the Northwest Coast of the Alaska Territory to open up the fur trade; and two letters (1865 and 1869), one of which is incomplete, to his fiance and then wife.

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Caldera (Schooner)

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Ennis, William H.

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Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1865-1867)

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In 1865, a man named Cyrus Fields was creating the Atlantic Cable—a telegraph line running under the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. Convinced submerging a telegraph cable in water was impossible, the Western Union funded Perry McDonough Collins and his expedition to build the first overland cross continental telegraph line. In order to put up the line, land surveys were conducted in Canada, Asia, and Alaska. Kennicott and his party of highly qualified naturalists and botanists focused their efforts e...