Charles R. Forbes
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Charles Robert Forbes was a Scottish-American politician and military officer. After serving in the United States Armed Forces and having fought on the Western Front of World War I, Forbes participate
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Forbes had family, business, and political ties in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Washington, 1917
Major Charles R. Forbes, Division Signal Officer, 33rd Division, testing field radio with doughboys of the 108th Field Signal Battalion, 33rd Division, France, September 1918.
Drake Hotel in Chicago, where Forbes took a $5,000 bribe. (1920 postcard)
Frederick Cook
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Frederick Albert Cook was an American explorer, medical doctor and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a
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…try to make the best of it." Forbes was incarcerated on March 20, 1926, at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary and served 20 months. His cellmate was Frederick Cook, an explorer convicted of fraud who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole. After his release from prison and in an effort to…
Frederick Cook с. 1906
Alleged photo of Denali's summit, now known as Fake Peak
Photo allegedly taken at, or near, the North Pole
Cook in Arctic gear