Expedition member leading horse with wood loaded on its back, near Kuskokwim Reconnaisance Camp 54 in the Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914

Caption under photo: Camp 54 above Timber Line - Bringing up Wood. McPherson number: K315 PH Coll 495.2-7c Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Fuelwood > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
alaska range
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3756
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Summary:Caption under photo: Camp 54 above Timber Line - Bringing up Wood. McPherson number: K315 PH Coll 495.2-7c Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition). The A.E.C. had assigned McPherson to research the feasibility of building a branch railroad from Anchorage west to the mining districts on the Kuskokwim and Iditarod Rivers.

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