An early ascent of the Yukon River

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 19, 2025   Featured, General News, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it. Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected […]