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3 1909 newspapers FREDERICK COOK CLAIMS HE WAS 1st TO REACH NORTH POLE not PEARY

$ 18.48

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    Description

    3 1909 newspapers - FREDERICK COOK CLAIMS HE , and NOT Robert Peary, WAS the 1st person TO REACH THE NORTH POLE -
    inv # 4T-203
    SEE PHOTO----- Three (3) COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the
    Morning Oregonian
    (Portland, OR) dated Oct 5, 6, and 7, 1909.
    These 3 newspapers contain
    Dr Frederick Cook's own long detailed eyewitness account of how he , and not Robert Peary, was the first person to reach the North Pole
    .
    Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. This was a year before April 6, 1909, the date claimed by the American explorer Robert Peary, and the accounts were disputed for several years. His expedition did discover Meighen Island, the only discovery of an island in the American Arctic by a United States expedition.
    After reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled in December 1909 that he had not proven that he reached the pole. In 1911 Cook published a memoir of his expedition, continuing to assert their success. His 1906 account of having reached the summit of Denali has also been discredited.
    Good condition. This listing includes the 3 complete entire original newspapers, NOT just a clipping or a page of them. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay  priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package.
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