Gumaer and Garrett left Valdez camp trying to find Brookfield’s party, MB-D, 6/3/98; Guide for Preston, Preston in Glenn & Abercrombie, p. 601; Party headed to interior composed of Lowe, Gumaer, Keller, Tolley, Gardner, Garrett, Hallett, Bence, Kahill, and Bjornstad starts with horses over Valdez Glacier, MB-D, 7/9/98; Abercrombie praises his work and requests that he be appointed to the 1899 work on the All American Trail through Central Alaska. Letter, to Hon. G.D. Meiklejohn, Assist. Secretary of War, 2/10/1899; NARA RG 107, Entry 80;