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The Conquest of Mount McKinley: The Story of Three Expeditions Through the Alaskan Wilderness to Mount McKinley, North America's Highest and Most Inaccessible Mountain Hardcover - 1913

by Browne, Belmore

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1/1/1913. Hardcover. Very Good. xvii, 381 pages : color frontispiece, plates (some color) folded map. Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Cover decorated with with gold lettering and axe and rope. Top edge gilt. Maps on lining-papers. Hardcover. Mylar dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Foxing to side page end. Clean, unmarked pages. Hand written calling card of Thomas H. Hubbard tipped in to front end page. Hubbard (1838-1915) was a Union Army colonel from Maine in the Civil War (hon. Brevet Brigadier General). After the war he became a railroad executive and financier. He contributed to the discovery of the North Pole and was President of the Peary Arctic Club, which financed Peary's exploration. Additionally, he backed Donald MacMillan's expedition to study native tribes of the Arctic. Hubbard's personal copy. This work recounts the expeditions of 1906, 1910, and 1912, the last of which was foiled by bad weather just 125 feet from the summit. Browne was instrumental in disproving Frederick Cook's claim to have reached the summit in 1907. Neate B191; Wickersham 4893; Tourville 699.
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