Two Explorers

   

Two Explorers

David L. Brainard and Frederick F. Kislingbury both signed up to explore the Artic Circle on the ill fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.  The outcome for each of them was very different.  *warning* talk of cannibalism. 

   

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Sources for the show

“David L. Brainard.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Brainard.

“Frederick Foster Kislingbury (1847-1884) - Find A...” Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com/memorial/7502465/frederick-foster-kislingbury.

“Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Franklin_Bay_Expedition.

Library, Dartmouth College. Introduction to the Brainard Camp Clay Diary, 29 Sept. 2017, www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/collections/manuscripts/brainard-diary/introduction-camp-clay-diary.html.

“Members of the Greely Expedition.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/greely-bios/.

NMAH, November 4. “A Mysterious Fork Leads to the Story of the Infamous Greely Expedition.” National Museum of American History, 4 Nov. 2011, americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/11/greely_expedition.html.

Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Ruth. “The Arctic Expedition of Commander Adolphus Washington Greely.” ROCHESTER HISTORY, vol. 59, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1–24.

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered. “The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881- 1884.” YouTube, uploaded by The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered, 3 Feb. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4abprNgpnU&feature=youtu.be.

www.virtualmuseum.ca, Virtual Museum Canada -. “Meet the Explorers.” Fort Conger, Artic Institute of North America, 29 Apr. 2014, fortconger.org/page/biographies.

Music:

Cattails Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Ghost Dance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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