311 “too much trouble...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 6, 1924, DART
313 “like an animal” Nan Allan to Inglis Fletcher, February 11, 1924, DART
314 “You must shoot...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 8, 1924, DART
314 “Well, I don’t...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, March 8, 1924, DART
315 “just sit still...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 8, 1924, DART
315 “I have been...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 8, 1924, DART
315 “Do you think...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 8, 1924, DART
315 “It is like...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 8, 1924, DART
316 “halfbreed” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 346
316 “Were there many...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 346
316 “it always makes...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 346
316 “Too many questions...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 12, 1924, DART
318 “If I have...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
319 “When thinking of...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, February 16, 1924, DART
319 “I am more...” Alma Galle to Ada Roach, n.d., LAW
319 “The truth is...” H.H. Langton, The Canadian Historical Review of the Adventure of Wrangel Island, NAC
320 “ ‘done for’ from...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, March 11, 1924, NAC
320 “If I would...” William McKinlay on the Wrangel Island Expedition, NAC
320 “Mr. Knight thinks...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, February 16, 1924, NAC
321 “Stefansson could not...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, June 20, 1924, NAC
321 “Now that a...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, October 21, 1924, DART
322 “Oh, Oh!” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
323 “If my mother...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
323 “I do not...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
323 “Are they for...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
323 “Please tell him...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 10, 1924, DART
324 “The New York...” New York World, “Spurned Eskimo Woman Is Blamed for Arctic Death,” February 11, 1924 New York World, February 11,1924
NINETEEN
326 “I thought you...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 372
327 “The hills look...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 12, 1924, DART
327 “Here is my...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 12, 1924, DART
328 “Now the old...” “Lady in the Moon,” as told to Inglis Fletcher by Ada Blackjack, February 11, 1924, IFP
329 “During the six...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, pp. 375–377
331 “Last night...” Los Angeles Times, “Survivor of Arctic Trip Is in City,” February 13, 1924
331 “Well, I do...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, February 18, 1924, DART
331 “Well, maybe white...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 349
333 “I’m sorry for...” Ada Blackjack to Stefansson, February 17, 1924, DART
333 “That she could...” New York World, “Spurned Eskimo Woman Is Blamed for Arctic Death,” February 11, 1924
334 “When I got...” The Adventure of Wrangel Island, p. 349
334 “A little woman...” Los Angeles Times,“Ada Blackjack Hits Back,” February 27, 1924
334 “Other allegations...” Los Angeles Times,“Ada Blackjack Hits Back,” February 27, 1924
335 “I don’t think...” Los Angeles Times,“Ada Blackjack Hits Back,” February 27, 1924
335 “doctor, nurse...” Los Angeles Times,“Death Vigil in Arctic Snows,” February 28, 1924
336 “They found her...” Unnamed, undated newspaper article, “Ada the Eskimo” (Stef MSS 196.97: Fletcher, Inglis (2) 1922–25), DART
336 “She had ‘guts’...” Unnamed, undated newspaper article, “In a Biological Sense” (Stef MSS 196: 97: Fletcher, Inglis (2) 1922–25), DART
336 “For two months...” Unnamed, undated newspaper article, “Ada Blackjack Refutes Noice,” by Consolidated Press (Stef MSS 196:97: Fletcher, Inglis (2) 1922–25), DART
336 “She will not...” Los Angeles Times,“Death Vigil in Arctic Snows,” February 28, 1924
338 “In all matters...” J.I. Knight to Stefansson, December 3, 1923, DART
340 “New Philadelphia...” Mary Maurer to the Galles, August 10, 1924, LAW (translated from German by Jessica Gilroy)
TWENTY
341 “Ada Blackjack is...” Unnamed, undated newspaper article, LAW
341 “I am very...” Anchorage Times, “Only Survivor of Arctic Expedition Dies in Obscurity,” June 5, 1983
341 “I am afraid...” A.J.T. Taylor to Stefansson, March 29, 1924, DART
342 “Could I discard...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, October 21, 1924, DART
343 “no claim to...” London Times, “Wrangel Island,” April 9, 1924
343 “How would you...” ASIA, “Staking Wrangel Island,” by D. M. Le Bourdais, April 1925
344 And then someone... The four jawbones did, in fact, belong to members of Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition: First Mate Sandy Anderson; Second Mate Charles Barker; and seamen John Brady and Edmund Lawrence Golightly (alias Archie King).
345 “Soviet officials...” New York Evening Post, “Soviet to Lease Wrangel,” September 20, 1924
346 Perhaps it was... An intriguing letter from Alma’s sister Maggie, dated May 10, 1925 (LAW), stated that she and her husband had been to the Majestic Theatre at their home in Austin to see a psychic and mind reader who was passing through town. “He’s alive. He’s not dead,” the psychic said when asked about Milton Galle, “—two men left—four men were on the island. He is wearing a uniform now.” She told them he had been captured in Siberia and was not being held prisoner but was being kept quiet due to governmental reasons.
346 “It has been...” David and Mary Maurer and family to Harry and Alma Galle and family, August 28, 1924, LAW
347 “We have never...” J.I. and Georgia Knight to friends, September 1, 1924, LAW
347 “Our thoughts have . . .” The Crawfords to the Galles, September 1, 1924, LAW
347 “We must all...” Delphine Maurer to Alma Galle, September 3, 1924, LAW
348 “It is not...” Alma Galle to Mr. and Mrs. Robb, undated, LAW
348 Noice knew that... Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, April 21, 1924, NAC
349 “In Noice’s favour...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, January 20, 1924, NAC
350 “I am glad...” Harold Noice’s retraction to Stefansson, October 19, 1924, LAW
350 “My complete...” Harold Noice’s retraction to Stefansson, October 19, 1924, LAW
351 “the relatives and...” J. T. Crawford to A. J. T. Taylor, October 13,1924, DART, and J. T. Crawford telegram to Macmillan Co., undated, DART
351 “We now think...” J.T. and Helen Crawford to the Macmillan Co., October 16, 1924, DART
351 “as sympathetic...” Stefansson to A. J. T. Taylor, November 20, 1924, DART
352 “If Stefansson gets...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, April 26, 1924, NAC
352 “think it wise...” J.T. Crawford to A. J. T. Taylor, December 19, 1924, DART
352 “You claim that...” J.T. Crawford to A. J. T. Taylor, December 14, 1924, DART
353 “Is he still...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, December 20, 1924, DART
353 “I never show...” Ada Blackjack to Stefansson, December 20, 1924, DART
354 “Oh! It’s...” Inglis Fletcher to Stefansson, December 21, 1924, DART
355 “Glorious was life...” Netsit, Northern Voices, “Dead Man’s Song,” pp. 34–35
TWENTY-ONE
357 “After escaping
the...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, February 25, 1925, NAC
358 “I don’t want...” Ada Blackjack to Gertrude Andrus, April 13, 1925, DART
358 “It isn’t very...” Ada Blackjack to Gertrude Andrus, April 16, 1925, DART
359 “ ‘piratically appropriated’...” New York World,“Stefansson Says Noice Admits Slurring Wrangel Island Heroes,” April 20, 1925
359 “Wife Goes to...” New York Evening Post, “Wife Goes to Reno on Noice Retraction,” April 20, 1925
361 “For many months...” New York World, “Parents Blame Stefansson for Crawford’s Death,” May 10, 1925
362 “The Maurer Family...” John Maurer to Stefansson, May 3, 1925, LAW
362 “He is sometimes...” Canadian House of Commons Debates, June 10, 1925, NAC
363 “of exceptional...” Canadian House of Commons Debates, June 10, 1925, NAC
363 “If there is...” Canadian House of Commons Debates, June 10, 1925, NAC
364 “Ada will die...” Kansas City Journal, “Arctic Heroine Going Back to Die on Island,” August 1, 1927
365 “Hardship of the...” Toronto Mail & Empire, “Ada Blackjack Goes North to Die,” November 1, 1927
365 Stefansson read the... Stefansson to Carl Lomen, July 6, 1950, IFP
PART VI
367 “I thank God...” Ada Blackjack’s diary, July 23, 1923, UAA/BBJ
368 “THE ADA BLACKJACK...” Burt E. Anderson to Commander Fitz-hugh Green, June 1, 1928, FG
TWENTY-TWO
369 “I had a...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
370 “Never mind...” Interview with Billy Blackjack Johnson, January 25, 2003
370 “When I was...” Interview with Billy Blackjack Johnson, January 25, 2003
370 “Ah nooga naga...” Interview with Billy Blackjack Johnson, January 25, 2003
372 “It is sometimes...” Olaf Swenson to the Galles, July 1, 1930, LAW
372 “All this has...” Helen Crawford to Alma Galle, March 27, 1930, LAW
372 “I always dread...” Helen Crawford to Harry and Alma Galle, September 1,1930, LAW
372 “When I woke...” Helen Crawford to Alma Galle, September 1, 1934, LAW
374 “Some day the...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, February 9, 1927, NAC
375 “My husband was...” Helen Crawford to Alma Galle, September 1, 1928, LAW
375 “I feel at...” Helen Crawford to Alma Galle, September 1, 1928, LAW
376 “True, our brother...” McMinnville Elk, “McMinnville Elks Mourn Death of Joseph I. Knight,” October 25, 1930, LAW
376 “I always want...” J.I. Knight to friends, September 8, 1924, LAW
377 “Since my paying...” Stefansson to Alma Galle, January 14, 1928, LAW
377 “I can only...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, January 20, 1929, LAW
377 “However great this...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, November 1, 1932, LAW
378 “strange, completely...” Alma Galle to Stefansson, November 1, 1932, LAW
378 “strange, completely . . .” Harold Noice, Back of Beyond, 1939
380 “he is prone...” E.P. Coffey to Mr. Ladd, October 11, 1939 (FBI Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Section; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, File: 100–7516 Section 1)
381 “Summarizing the . . .” J. Edgar Hoover to Stefansson, December 21, 1939 (Freedom of Information/ Privacy Acts Section; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, File: 100-7516 Section 1)
382 In the late... Interview with Bill Lawless, April 2002 and again October 10, 2002, LAW
383 “I really will...” Literary Digest, July 13,1935, p. 29
384 “Feb. 28, 1974...” Stanton H. Patty to William S. Crosby, February 28, 1974, DART
EPILOGUE
387 “In memory of...” Don Knight, cousin of E. Lorne Knight, DN
387 “a true and...” Lorne Knight, Pechuck, 1932, flyleaf
387 “God did not...” Mae Belle Anderson to Helen Crawford, December 14, 1923, NAC
388 “To commemorate...” Toronto Star, “Fellow Students Honor Late Allan Crawford,” June 1, 1924
388 “sacrifice and heroism...” Toronto Star, “University Schools Memorial,” June 18, 1924
388 Long after Alfred... Interview with Don Tolle, March 2002
389 “Why are you...” Interview with Bill Lawless, October 30, 2002, LAW
389 “Dear Stefansson . . .” Ada Blackjack Johnson to Stefansson, June 28, 1950, IFP
390 “formerly Ada...” Ada Blackjack Johnson to Stefansson, June 28, 1950, IFP
390 “pathetic case” Stefansson to Carl Lomen, July 6, 1950, IFP
390 “These charities...” Stefansson to Ada Blackjack, July 6, 1950, IFP
390 “It is still...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
390 But she had... Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
390 “no trace at...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
391 “It was a...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
391 “I think I...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
391 “Brave? I don’t...” Sunday Denver Post, “Lone Survivor Ada Blackjack Recalls Arctic,” January 14, 1973
392 “Am I beautiful...” Interview with Billy Blackjack Johnson, January 25, 2003
392 “I consider my...” CIRI Newsletter, “Look Back in History: Ada Blackjack Johnson—Arctic Heroine”
393 “The final chapter...” Billy Blackjack Johnson letter, 1973, UAA/BBJ
393 “a small token...” Rep. John G. Fuller to Billy Blackjack Johnson, August 26, 1983, BBJ
393 “Born in 1898...” The Alaska Legislature, In Memoriam: Ada Blackjack Johnson, June 16,1983, UAA/BBJ
394 “I am so...” Billy Blackjack Johnson to Rep. Frank R. Ferguson, September 13, 1983, UAA/BBJ
Maps
Picture Section
1. Ada Blackjack’s parents with three of their children. (Ada is believed to be the oldest child, standing here behind her siblings.)
2. Ada Blackjack’s mother, Maggie Delutuk.
3. Ada Blackjack and son Bennett, Nome, Alaska.
4. Ada in the latest fashions. (Date unknown, taken before the expedition to Wrangel Island.)
5. Ada with Bennett and sister Rita on the porch of her home in Nome before joining the Wrangel Island Expedition.
6. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, organizer of the expedition.
7. Ada in Eskimo costume.
8. Allan Crawford, official leader of the Wrangel Island Expedition.
9. Fred Maurer, survivor of Stefansson’s 1913–1914 Canadian Arctic Expedition, and member of the 1921 Wrangel Island venture.
10. E. Lorne Knight, second-in-command.
11. Promotional poster for Fred Maurer’s lecture stint on the Chautauqua circuit.
12. Nineteen-year-old Milton Galle of New Braunfels, Texas.
13. The Silver Wave, before sailing for Wrangel Island.
14. View of Wrangel Island on the approach.
15. The camp on Wrangel Island.
16. Allan Crawford with expedition cat, Vic.
17. Milton Galle walking into the wind on the gravel beach.
18. Lorne Knight displays his catch.
19. Fred Maurer in winter gear.
20. Ada Blackjack scraping skins.
21. Milton Galle making a seal poke.
22. Allan Crawford carving snow blocks for the winter house.
23. Building walls of snow to surround the tents for winter.
24. Ada in riding pants.
25. Summer camp in June 1922.
26. Crawford and Maurer skinning a walrus.
27. Displaying the walrus skull in camp.
28. Ada with a polar bear.
29. One of the man
y bears shot around camp.
1. Crawford with rifle, preparing for the hunt.
2. Lorne Knight after his walk to Skeleton Island.
3. Milton Galle with Vic.
4. Crawford on the beach in summer as the ice closes in.
5. Fred Maurer watching for a ship.
6. Ada in hunting costume (self-portrait).
7. Ada and Knight’s camp in May of 1923.
8. The rescue ship Donaldson.
9. Donaldson commander Harold Noice on the approach to Wrangel Island.
10. Ada, wearing the reindeer parka she made for herself, meets her rescuers (note the platform she constructed in the background).
11. Ada standing over Lorne Knight’s grave.
12. Ada on the rescue ship Donaldson.
13. Ada and Vic aboard the rescue ship on the way home to Alaska.
14. Alma Galle, awaiting word from her son.
15. Professor Crawford, Helen Crawford, and Allan’s younger brother, Johnnie.
16. Mary Maurer and Nigeraurak, or Nicki, the cat Fred saved from the Karluk expedition.
17. Ada with Georgia and John Knight outside their home in McMinnville, Oregon.
18. The diary of Lorne Knight, defaced by Harold Noice.
19. Ada as heroine (circa 1924).
20. Bennett in California, February 25, 1924.
21. Ada on porch, shortly after her return from California.
22. Ada, discovered by a reporter, gathering driftwood on the beach in Unalaska in 1935.
23. Ada trying to disappear in a crowd.
24. Ada with son Billy in 1973, posing once again for newspaper photographers.
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