Smoke from small fire and packhorse grazing in spruce marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, September 1914 (AL+CA 3841)

Caption under photo: Spruce Marsh near Bear Creek.
McPherson number: K399

PH Coll 495.2-31a
Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition). The A.E.C. had assigned McPherson to research the feasibility of building a branch railroad from Anchorage west to the mining districts on the Kuskokwim and Iditarod Rivers.
Subjects (LCTGM): Smoke--Alaska; Horses--Alaska; Wetlands--Alaska