Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic explorer, will tell of his adventures on the Putnam Expedition last summer to North Greenland, in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7:30 o'clock...
...Captain Bartlett was in charge of the voyage, made in his ship, except in regard to technical work of obtaining the history of the natives and specimens of the sea animals, this work was carried on by G. P. Putnam, for whom the expedition was named...
...Perry's famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...
President Coolidge selected Bartlett as a member of the famous board to investigate the northern flight in the "Shenandoah". In the World War he was Lieutenant Commander in the American Navy, helping carry the soldiers through the perilous zone of the North Atlantic...
...trip was Robert Peary, Jr., son of the North Pole discoverer, on whose trips Bartlett learned the ways of the Arctic Wastes...