Herd of reindeer grazing in Woodland Park before being shipped to Alaska, 1898

• Main Author: Wilse and Kirk
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1898
• Subjects: Parks > Washington (State) > Seattle; Reindeer > Washington (State) > Seattle; Woodland Park (Seattle; Wash.); Yukon; Kjellman; Alaska; Lapland
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/seattle/id/2673

In March of 1898 the Lapland Yukon Relief Expedition, accompanied by William Kjellman, stopped in Seattle before heading to Alaska. The reindeer, intended to be livestock for the starving Yukon miners, were pastured at Woodland Park when their food was mistaken for packing material and inadvertently...