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Episode Synopsis
This week it's back to just the lads again with the story of the sidewheeler Alaskan, sunk in May 1889 off of Cape Blanco.Sources:"The Alaskan Founders." New York Times, 17 May 1889. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/05/17/100961000.pdfAnderson, Matthew. "SS Columbia - The Lost Ship Who Lit the World." Shipwreck World, 23 Oct 2016. https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/ss-columbia-the-first-electric-ship"The Olympian and the Alaskan." The West Shore, 1 May 1884. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2012260361/1884-05-01/ed-1/seq-7/Schultz, Duane. "Inconvenient Truth: A Daring Reporter Tells Abraham Lincoln What His Own Government Would Not." America's Civil War, Nov 2012, pp. 26 - 33. "Villard, Henry. "1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Villard,_Henry"Yaquina Head Lighthouse." Lighthouse Friends. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=133Villard, Henry. "Recollections of Lincoln." The Atlantic: 2012 Civil War Special, pp. 34 - 37. Support the show
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