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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;morgen94, post: 12632, member: 217&quot;]Well, I don&#039;t know if a find in my house counts, but it came from a local estate sale a few years ago and I forgot about it...</p><p><br /></p><p>While cleaning my near-Hoarders computer room I found the paper seen here. After looking for information about Frederick Schwatka on Ancestry and a newspaper database to which I subscribe I found that we was, during his lifetime, a world-famous explorer who, among other things, went into the Arctic to retrieve the &quot;skeletons of Sir John Franklin&#039;s party.&quot; He made expeditions to Mexico and uncovered heretofore unknown relics of Aztec civilization, he explored the length of the Yukon River and wrote books about it. I found a book about his Yukon exploration online <a href="https://archive.org/stream/alongalaskasgrea00schwuoft#page/n0/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/alongalaskasgrea00schwuoft#page/n0/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of his obits noted that he was in Olympia WA in the summer of 1892 (the date of this note) to take Keeley&#039;s cure for intoxication.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to donate the paper to an appropriate institution, but I am not sure where the best repository is. The University of Alaska? The Olympia WA state museum? I would welcome your suggestions.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]2972[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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