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My Attainment of the Pole

by Frederick A. Cook

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2The Present Status of the Polar Controversy
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4I — The Polar Fight
  5. 5Into the Boreal Wilds
  6. 6The Driving Spur of the Polar Quest
  7. 7To the Limits of Navigation
  8. 8Beginning Preparations for the Polar Dash
  9. 9The Curtain of Night Drops
  10. 10First Week of the Long Night
  11. 11The Moonlight Quest of the Walrus
  12. 12Midnight and Mid-Winter
  13. 13En Route for the Pole
  14. 14Exploring a New Pass Over Acpohon
  15. 15In Game Trails to Land’s End
  16. 16The Trans-Boreal Dash Begins
  17. 17Over the Polar Sea to the Big Lead
  18. 18Crossing Moving Seas of Ice
  19. 19Land Discovered
  20. 20Beyond the Range of Life
  21. 21Over Polar Seas of Mystery
  22. 22To the Pole — The Last Hundred Miles
  23. 23At the North Pole
  24. 24The Return — A Battle for Life Against Famine and Frost
  25. 25Back to Life and Back to Land
  26. 26Overland to Jones Sound
  27. 27Under the Whip of Famine
  28. 28Bear Fights and Walrus Battles
  29. 29Bull Fights With the Musk Ox
  30. 30With a New Art of Chase in a New World of Life
  31. 31A Hundred Nights in an Underground Den
  32. 32Homeward With a Half Sledge and Half-Filled Stomachs
  33. 33Annoatok to Upernavik
  34. 34From Greenland to Copenhagen
  35. 35Copenhagen to the United States
  36. 36The Key to the Controversy
  37. 37The Mt. McKinley Bribery
  38. 38The Dunkle-Loose Forgery
  39. 39How a Geographic Society Prostituted Its Name
  40. 40Retrospect
  41. 41Appendix
  42. 42Questions That Enter Calculations for Position of the North Pole
  43. 43Positive Proof of Dr. Cook’s Attainment of the Pole
  44. 44Verdict of the Geographic Historian
  45. 45For a National Investigation — A Request
  46. 46Can the Government Escape the Responsibility?
  47. 47Through the First Antarctic Night

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