![]() ![]() There they would provide sustenance for the survivors until their ships were released from the ice or the men could be transferred to the rescue vessel. President McKinley responds by setting in motion a truly audacious rescue attempt: a rescue cutter will travel as far north as possible, and from there rescuers will begin an extensive Overland Relief Expedition that would start by dogsled along the Alaskan coast then, after convincing two reindeer herders to give up their animals, the team would drive the reindeer up to Point Barrow. ![]() ![]() When an unexpectedly early freeze leaves eight whaling vessels crushed or trapped along Alaska's northern coast in September of 1897, Captain Benjamin Tilton of the Alexander, which had barely escaped a similar fate, apprises officials and journalists in San Francisco of the circumstances of the whalers and calls for a rescue mission. ![]()
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