Smoke from small fire and packhorse grazing in spruce marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: Spruce Marsh near Bear Creek. McPherson number: K399 PH Coll 495.2-31a 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 Railroa...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Smoke > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Wetlands > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3841
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Summary:Caption under photo: Spruce Marsh near Bear Creek. McPherson number: K399 PH Coll 495.2-31a 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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