Kuskokwim Reconnaissance packhorses in the distance on western approach to snow-covered Simpson Pass, Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914

Caption nest to photo: "Simpson Pass" from West. McPherson number: K320 PH Coll 495.2-8c 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...

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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)
Mountain passes > Alaska
Anchorage
alaska range
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3760
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Summary:Caption nest to photo: "Simpson Pass" from West. McPherson number: K320 PH Coll 495.2-8c 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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