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1. Unloading the ‘Proteus’ at Discovery Harbor. (G.W.Rice, photographer / Library of Congress)

2. Building Fort Conger, (G.W.Rice, photographer ‘Library of Congress’

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. . .Eventually , though his leadership skills and his abilities, he’d convinced the Signal Corps and the highest brass of the U.S. Army -- as well as Secretary of war Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s son) who signed his orders) -- that he had the “stuff”. He would lead this mission, formally named the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in honor of Lady Jane Franklin. Her husband, the legendary Sri John Franklin (and his crew of 129), had vanished seeking the northwest Passage in 1845. Lady Franklin sponsored numerous expeditions to find him. ~ Page 8

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. . . The air was cold, fresh, salty, and bracing. He paused to look back as the men began unloading the ‘Proteus.’ Ice was beginning to pack and encroach in Discovery Harbor, as well as beyond, to the west in the Kennedy Channel. From somewhere out in the bunched and knuckled hills came the plaintive howl of a wolf. Adolphus Greely, adjusting his spectacles and gazing at the three tall masts of the ‘Proteus’ piercing the horizon, had cause for both excitement and trepidation. For as his men lowered the whaleboats, and the twenty eight foot steam launch dubbed the ‘Lady Greely,’ it occurred to him that there were 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. They were, in fact, now the most northerly colony of human inhabitants in the world. They were being left, quite literally, at the far end of the earth. ~ Page 14

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2 years ago.

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