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Journals from the 2001 Expedition Mammal
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Journals from the 2001 Harriman Alaska Expedition RetracedThe daily journals from the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition provide us with some of the most valuable primary documents about that trip. Unlike the published sources, these day-to-day reflections from those on the Elder give us a look at the ways in which personality and coincidence affected the outcome of that expedition. Without Frederick Dellenbaugh’s highly-detailed writings, for example, we would not know the origin of the rough map that eventually led Harriman to the totems at the Tlingit village of Cape Fox. Without John Burroughs’s private notes, we would not know how deeply sea-sick and homesick the nature writer had been in Alaska. It is likely that the same will hold true for
the 2001 journals, produced by three members of the Young Explorers Team.
The more formal reports will tell us about the science, nature and culture
of coastal Alaska in 2001, but Clare Baldwin tells us how basketball served
as a bridge between cultures, and how tourists reacted when they found
a gift shop on a tiny island in the Bering Sea. Journal: Clare
Baldwin |
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| "I met a man who was on the Martha Wilkes, a boat belonging to a man named Wiggins of Washington, D.C. who had gone to St. Michael and told me of a deserted Indian village full of totem poles opposite St. Mary's Island." Frederick Dellenbaugh’s |
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For information on the Harriman Retraced Expedition e-mail: harriman2001@science.smith.edu |