Only Yesterday.

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p. 353, re Byrd: Yet the noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor. Admiral Byrd’s flight to the South Pole made him a hero second only to Lindbergh in the eyes of the country at large, but in the larger centers of population there was manifest a slight tendency to yawn: his exploit had been over-publicized, and heroism, however gallant, lost something of its spontaneous charm when it was subjected to scientific management and syndicated in daily dispatches. [See also chapter 8, “The Ballyhoo Years,” p. 186ff.]

Mariner’s Sketches, Originally Published in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal, Providence.

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The author Nathaniel Ames was the son of the statesman, Fisher Ames (1758-1808), of Dedham, Massachusetts, and was a congressman from 1789 to 1797. Nathaniel was named for his grandfather, Nathaniel Ames, famous for the Ames Almanacs, which were the inspiration to Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac".

With Peary Near the Pole…

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Astrup participated in two of Peary’s early Greenland expeditions.

The Alaska Frontier.

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A treatise in defense of the United States claim to Alaska against later claims of Canada.

The North Pole and Bradley Land.

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An exploration of the Cook-Peary controversy, with excerpts below based on his reading experience and that of others.

Correspondence, 1908-1912. AMNH Mss. B67

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Folder 1: Long letter to his father from Peary expedition, an account of his experience starting Thurs, July 23 from Turnavik in 1908:

Manuscripts and Archives Division, Library of Congress.

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Henry [Harry] Clay, of the Howgate Preliminary Expedition on the Gulnare, was the grandson of the famous Henry Clay of Lexington, KY. Materials about him and by him are in Section II. Box 46, and probably elsewhere in the Library of Congress manuscript collections.

Fighting the Polar Ice.

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p. 61-62: The Christmas and the New Year holidays passed happily. We celebrated them with banquets, to which our hard working steward contributed many delicacies. A Christmas issue of the Arctic Eagle, our camp newspaper, was printed, Assistant Commissary Stewart making up the forms and running the press, and Seaman Montrose, who had once been a printer, acting as compositor. Nearly all the members of the party contributed to its columns and much amusement at its quips and personals was the result.*

Peary: The Man Who Refused to Fail.

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A lightly disguised paeon to Peary and his endeavors, by a sometime participant in Peary’s expeditions