Hegland, Nelse

1898-1899

Member of a group of 15 who have formed a partnership; leaving Dawson, SD; will go direct to Copper River country and if no gold on to the Klondike; departing Seattle 3/5/97 and should arrive in Alaska about 3/15/97, Dawson MN Sentinel, 2/25/98; V-Lot, Index , p. 111; A.J. Wadman, J.R. Marshall, John Eckland, and Nels Hegland came back over glacier together, winter 1898-99, took 6 days, Brown in Glenn and Abercrombie, p. 623; Age, 40, began receiving rations from Quartermaster Brown at Army cantonment in Valdez, 2/23/99, for 6 days, listed as a Norwegian Scurvy victim, Brown, List of Persons Rationed; inGlenn and Abercrombie.