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Edwin S. Keene (d. 1940)

Edwin Keene came to the Yukon 1897. He became a hero that winter when he hiked twenty miles back along the trail to get a stove which he packed on his back over an icy and snow-laden route. The stove was used to warm a shelter where a boy’s frozen leg was amputated.1)

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Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 26 January 1940.
k/e_keene.txt · Last modified: 2024/10/15 12:59 by sallyr