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June 10, 2025
Frederick Albert Cook was born on this day 160 years ago in the hamlet of Hortonville in Sullivan County, NY.
“History will give Dr. Cook a place–this may be high, it may be low, but a place is assured”
– from the unpublished memoirs of Frederick A. Cook
June 7, 2025
This is the latest in a series of posts that publish for the first time significant documents related to the Polar Controversy.
Frederick A. Stokes
Peary’s book about his 1909 expedition, The North Pole, was published in September 1910. Near the end of the month, its publisher, Frederick A. Stokes, received a night letter [...]