On Crossing the Alaska Range
Abstract Lieutenant Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930) led one of the last official U. S. Army expeditions of note in Alaska, exploring the Copper River north over the Alaska Range into the Tanana River drainage. The Pulitzer-Prize winning historian William Goetzmann has called Allen’s report “a classi...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0017 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479541/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-17.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Lieutenant Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930) led one of the last official U. S. Army expeditions of note in Alaska, exploring the Copper River north over the Alaska Range into the Tanana River drainage. The Pulitzer-Prize winning historian William Goetzmann has called Allen’s report “a classic in the literature of Alaskan exploration” and a “model example of the old-style all-purpose reconnaisance.”1 In this passage from the Report of an Expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers in the Territory of Alaska, in the Year 1885 (Washington) Henry Allen de scribes the exciting moment when the expedition accomplished what had never been done before the crossing of the divide between the Copper and the Tanana River: “From this [location] the most grateful sight it has ever been my fortune to witness was presented.” |
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