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Frederick Albert Cook

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940, American explorer and physician, b. Sullivan co., N.Y. Cook early became interested in the arctic and accompanied the expedition of Robert E. Peary in 1891-92 as surgeon. Later he accompanied the Belgian expedition (1897-99) to Antarctica and made other polar voyages. In 1906, after unsuccessful attempts to reach the summit of Mt. McKinley, Cook remained behind when most of the party returned. He later announced that he and a companion had successfully scaled the peak; this assertion was afterward proved to be fraudulent. In 1907 he set out with an expedition... Read more
March, Fredric
...Fredric Nationality: American. Born: Frederick Ernest McIntyre Bickel in Racine, Wisconsin...Maine); Nothing Sacred (Wellman) (as Wally Cook) 1938 The Buccaneer (DeMille) (as Jean...Great (Rossen) (as Philip of Macedonia); Albert Schweitzer (doc) 1956 The Man in the Gray... Read more
Matthew A. Henson
...Greenland in June 1891, and Henson accompanied him along with Peary's wife, Josephine, and other assistants, including Frederick Albert Cook. During this first trip Henson started to learn about the way of life of the Inuit who lived at the northern end... Read more

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