Papers, 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940).

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Papers, 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940).

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Correspondence, mss., tss., and printed copies of books and essays, diaries, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, certificates, maps, printed materials, and other papers, relating chiefly to Cook's expeditions to the Arctic (1891-1892 and 1901) with Robert E. Peary and Matthew Alexander Henson, to the Antarctic with Roald Amundsen's expedition (1897-1899), to Mt. McKinley (1906), to the North Pole (1907-1909), and around the world (1915-1916), and to the controversy surrounding Cook's claim that he discovered the North Pole. Includes papers (1910-1977) of Cook's daughter, Helen Cook Vetter, chiefly relating to her efforts to validate Cook's claim. Also includes papers relating to Cook's trial and conviction for mail fraud and papers from his subsequent incarceration in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, primarily his memoirs and writings for the prison newspaper, Leavenworth new era, on topics such as exploration of the polar regions; ethnography of Africa, Greenland, and Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego; medical theories on diet and nutrition and the physiological effect of cold; treatment of drug abuse; and prison reform. Correspondents include Roald Amundsen, James Gordon Bennett, J.E. Bernier, Stanley Boriss, Buffalo Bill, Cyril Clemens, Marie Fidell Hunt Cook, Samuel J. Entrikin, Anthony Fiala, Rudolph Franke, Alfred S. Franklin, Andrew A. Freeman, John W. Goodsell, Ruth Hunt Cook Hamilton, T. Everett Harré, J. Gordon Hayes, Lilian E. Kiel, Hugo Levin, Milton M. Lory, William E. Mears, Adah Murphy, Eugene A. Murphy, Russell T. Neville, Otto Nordenskjöld, Ben L. Reitman, S.M. Riss, Ernest Christian Rost, John W. Ruskin, Winfield Scott Schley, Ralph Shainwald-von Ahlefeldt, William E. Shea, F.P. Thompson, Henry Wellington Wack, and Harry Whitney.

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Entrikin, Samuel J., 1862-1942

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Samuel J. Entrikin was born September 26, 1862 to Thomas and Sarah Jane Cloud Entrikin in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. When his mother died around 1865, a young Entrikin was sent to live with Sarah Entrikin—his aunt and notable West Chester physician. Schooled in West Chester, Samuel was a printer by trade, yet he pursued many other interests—among them, teaching, mining, farming, and inventing. However, Entrikin is best known as one of West Chester’s famous Artic explorers. As a young man, Sam...

Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999

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Cyril Clemens (1902- ) was editor of the Mark Twain Journal and president of an international Mark Twain society. Clemens was a native of St. Louis, Mo.; son of James R. and Katherine Boland Clemens; and a kinsman of Samuel L. Clemens. From the guide to the Cyril Clemens Papers, ., 1936-1976, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Cyril Clemens, born in St. Louis on July 14, 1902, died in Kirkwood on May 16, 1999. Distant cous...

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

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Harré, T. Everett (Thomas Everett), 1884-1948

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Boriss, Stanley

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Goodsell, John W., 1873-1949

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Bernier, J. E., 1852-1934

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Cook, Marie Fidell Hunt

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Freeman, Andrew A., 1900-....

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Franklin, Alfred S.

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Fiala, Anthony, 1869-1950

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Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928

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While on an Arctic exploration, Amundsen's ship, the Maud, was disabled by a broken propeller off the Siberian coast. He requested assistance from Captain Claude S. Cochran on the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear. From the description of Radiograms and telegrams : between Amundsen on the disabled auxiliary schooner Maud and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear, 1921 July 8-19. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 30352211 Amundsen was a Norwegian polar explorer. ...

Hamilton, Ruth Hunt Cook

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Franke, Rudolph

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Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918

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James Gordon Bennett Jr., (born May 10, 1841, New York City – died May 14, 1918, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father. Among his many sports-related accomplishments he organized both the first polo match and the first tennis match in the United States, and he personally won the first trans-oc...