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1. Mendenhall, Walter C. "Yellowstone Kelly. Portage Bay Alaska"
- Published / Created:
- 1898 May
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2467
- Collection Title:
- Memoirs describing expeditions and military service in Alaska and the Philippines
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 10
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- interior and to geologist and photographer W. C
- Description:
- Luther S. Kelly, known also as "Yellowstone Kelly", was a trapper, hunter and Army scout. In 1898 Kelly was sent to Alaska to serve on the Reindeer for Alaska Relief Expedition. He was later assigned to an expedition under E. F. Glenn that scouted mail routes to Yukon posts. In 1899 Kelly was hired by the Harriman Expedition and traveled in Alaska before being assigned to command a Philippine post at Dapitan in Mindanao. After successfully resisting a seige by escaped convicts and outlaws in March of 1903 in Surigao, Kelly was appointed Indian Agent at the San Carlos Agency in Arizona. He retired to Paradise, California where he wrote his memoirs; a portion describing his life through 1892 was published in 1926 as "'Yellowstone Kelly': the Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly". He died in 1928.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928 and Mendenhall, Walter C. (Walter Curran), 1871-1957
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mendenhall, Walter C. "Yellowstone Kelly. Portage Bay Alaska"