Line of Kuskokwim Reconnaissance packhorses travelling up eastern approach to Simpson Pass, Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914

Caption under photo: East Approach to Simpson Pass. No McPherson number PH Coll 495.2-7d 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 C...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Passes (Landforms) > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Packtrains > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Simpson Pass (Alaska)
Anchorage
alaska range
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3757
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Summary:Caption under photo: East Approach to Simpson Pass. No McPherson number PH Coll 495.2-7d 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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