Benjamin Wesley Booher photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1904.

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Benjamin Wesley Booher photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1904.

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The photographs in this collection record some of Booher's experiences on the trail, in the mining camps and Valdez while traveling with Hazelet and Meals for a time during their expedition from Nebraska to the Copper River Basin in Alaska over the Valdez Glacier 1898. Few of the individuals in the photographs are identified.

26 photographs : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7638444

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Booher, Benjamin Wesley, 1872-1975.

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Prospected in Copper Center, Valdez, Chisna, Chitna, Gulkana, and Gakona. From the description of Papers of Benjamin W. Booher concerning Hazelet-Meals expedition from Valdez to the Copper River-Chisna area, 1900-1975 (bulk 1900-1904). (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42926579 In 1900, Ben Booher, of Guthrie Center, Iowa, joined George Cheever Hazelet and A. Jack Meals of Nebraska on a prospecting expedition to Alaska. Booher's diary (MS 13-06) lists fourteen addi...

Meals, A. Jack.

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Hotel St. Elias (Valdez, Alaska)

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Hazelet, George Cheever, 1863-1926.

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George Cheever Hazelet was born in October 1863 at Senecaville, Ohio. He was educated to the teaching profession and became principal of the high school at O'Neill, Nebraska. He had a wife and two sons. On February 7, 1889 he joined the gold rush to Alaska. From the description of George Cheever Hazelet papers, 1898-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42065524 ...