In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned. Years later, ...

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the morning of April 7, 1909 dawned, Matthew Henson checked the temperature outside. It was 29 below zero. Later that day, Henson and the man he worked for, Robert Peary, would ...

During a race to the North Pole in 1909, The New York Times supported one explorer, while the rival New York Herald backed another. By David W. Dunlap Cook or Peary? No public issue was more divisive ...

"The men of prominence are 'among those present' for him" : how and why America's elites made Robert Peary a national icon / Lyle Dick -- Frederick Cook : a reappraisal / Michael F. Robinson -- "The ...

There could be no more eloquent tribute to the personal heroism of Cmdr. Robert E. Peary, who reached the North Pole just 25 years ago today, than the crude sledge on which he made the memorable trip ...

Ever since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the ...

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