Ed Schieffelin's trip to Alaska 1882-1883 : typescript, 1888.

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Ed Schieffelin's trip to Alaska 1882-1883 : typescript, 1888.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26080493

Account of prospecting venture up the Yukon on a steamboat built in San Francisco.

Originals : 10 p. ; 33 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (9 exposures) : negative (Rich. 113:18-114:13) and positive (Film P-K, reel 13)

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Schieffelin, Edward, 1847-1897

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Edward Lawrence Schieffelin was born on October 8, 1847 in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. In 1849 his father Clinton Schieffelin and uncle-in-law Joe Walker headed west to try their luck in the gold fields of California. Eventually, the two purchased property along the Rogue River in Oregon, and in 1856 a young Edward and his family moved west to join his father in Jackson County, Oregon. As a young man Schieffelin prospected all over the North American West, but his biggest find came in 1877 when ...