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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05245.09 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall |
Title | Charles G. Horsfall to Owen Horsfall describing treatments for frozen body parts and the weather |
Date | 03 March 1901 |
Author | Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910) |
Recipient | Horsfall, Owen |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Describes doctoring Pearson for badly frozen toes, wrists, and cheeks, using carbonized water and Vaseline. Complains about the long winter. "March has come in like a lamb and will probably go out like the proverbial lion." |
Subjects | Alaska Gold Rush Frontiers and Exploration Health and Medical Extreme Weather |
People | Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910) Horsfall, Owen (fl. 1900-1910) |
Place written | Nome, Alaska |
Theme | Health & Medicine |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
Additional Information | Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Son |