J. B. McIntosh diary of Yukon trip with Fredrick Schwatka, 1883.

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J. B. McIntosh diary of Yukon trip with Fredrick Schwatka, 1883.

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Transcription of diary of J.B. McIntosh, assayer, for the Schwatka Exploration Expedition in Southeast, Alaska and the Yukon River. Short daily entries on the people. activities, trials, and weather of the expedition. Descriptions of Native Alaskans and First Nations people and their lifestyles, including gardening, trade, and linguistic abilities.

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Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892

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Frederick Schwatka. Explorer, born in Galena, Ill., where he later worked at printing. Attended Willamette University. Graduated from West Point, held army posts, while studying law and medicine. Became interested in exploration and convinced the American Geographical Society to back an attempt to discover the fate of the expedition of Sir John Franklin to the Arctic, thirty years earlier. With William Gilder led a two-year search, successfully completed in 1880. Published books on ...

McIntosh, J. B.

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This diary was kept by J.B. McIntosh while on the Southeast Alaska and Yukon River exploration expedition with Lieutenant Fredrick Schwatka. J.B. McIntosh was the only civilian in the U.S. Army exploring party. McIntosh was the party assayer. The Schwatka Exploration Expedition left from Portland, Oregon on the Steamer Victoria and traveled through Southeast on the Northwest Passage up the Yukon River in Interior Alaska. From the description of J. B. McIntosh diary of Yukon trip with...

Schwatka Expedition (1883)

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