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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Main Author: Allen, Henry T
Format: Book Part
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Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 1990
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Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0017
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0017 2023-12-31T09:58:29+01:00 On Crossing the Alaska Range Allen, Henry T 1990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0017 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479541/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-17.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY A Republic Of Rivers page 109-112 ISBN 9780195061024 9780197725870 book-chapter 1990 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0017 2023-12-06T08:45:00Z 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.” Book Part alaska range Alaska Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 109 112
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description 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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