Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winter adventures in the Unknown Yukon" will be the subject of a lecture by Bradford Washburn this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Brattle Hall for the benefit of the Cambridge Tuberculosts and Health Association...
...Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska's delegate in Congress. During the War he served in the finance division of the Army, later married a blonde girl named Gudrun Andersen, daughter of a Yukon prospector. They moved to Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting and three corpses were laid out on a billiard table in one of the town's play parlors. Emil Hurja started the Breckenridge American. All his life...
...with this group. It was only last year that the team had reached a high enough position to collect together a third class team. He was made captain, but had to leave in the middle of the season, when he went with H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, to the Yukon Territory on a mapping expedition, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society...
Several thousand square miles of unknown territory in the Yukon were mapped and explored by the National Geographic Expedition last spring, according to H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, leader of the expedition. Washburn lectured at the Geographical Institute last night...
...Bradford Washburn, Jr., '29, will give a public lecture on "Exploring Yukon's Glacial Stronghold" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures and slides taken on his expedition last summer...