Diary transcripts, 1913.

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Diary transcripts, 1913.

The collection consists of a copy of a typed transcript of Henry Karstens' pencil diary during the 1913 Mount McKinley expedition which reached the south summit on June 7th. The entries in the transcript cover the period of April 25 to June 14, 1913.

.1 cu. ft.11 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Stuck, Hudson, 1863-1920

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Hudson Stuck (1863-1920), Episcopal minister and author, completed his religious training and was ordained in 1892. He became archdeacon of the Yukon and published numerous articles in the "Spirit of Missions" and began publishing his own "Alaska Mission of the Episcopal Church". From the description of Hudson Stuck papers, 1902-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42064411 Episcopal archdeacon at Metlakatla. From the description of Letters from Hudson Stuck to J...

Karstens, Harry P., 1879-1955.

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Henry P. "Harry" Karstens came to Alaska in 1897 with the Klondike Gold Rush and later mined in the Seventy-Mile River area. He was one of a small group of men who laid out the townsite for Eagle, Alaska. Karstens was known as a skilled outdoorsman, who, with his partner, Charles McGonagall, broke the first dogsled trail for the movement of U.S. mail from Fairbanks to Valdez. In 1906, he was a guide for the hunter and naturalist, Charles Sheldon, who was largely responsible for the creation of M...