Publications

The results of the Crocker Land Expedition were published in a series of reports, as well as in popular form in books, journals, and magazines.

Baker, Frank Collins, Walter Elmer Ekblaw, Maurice Cole Tanquary, and Edmund Otis Hovey

1919  Mollusca of the Crocker Land Expedition to Northwest Greenland and Grinnell Land: order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1159

Ekblaw, W. Elmer

1918a  Finding the nest of the Knot. Wison Bulletin 30(4):97-100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4154831  An illustrated version of this article is also available as an iBook here https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/finding-the-nest-of-the-knot/id917664623?mt=11

1918b  The Importance of Nivation as an Erosive Factor, and of Soil Flow as a Transporting Agency, in Northern Greenland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 4(9):288-293. http://www.jstor.org/stable/83656

1919a  The Food Birds of the Smith Sound Eskimo. Wilson Bulletin 106:1-5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4154841

1919b  The Snow-Bunting, an Arctic Study in Black and White. The Wilson Bulletin:41-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4154854

1921    The Ecological Relations of the Polar Eskimo. Ecology 2(2):132-144. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1928927

1927    The Material Response of the Polar Eskimo to Their Far Arctic Environment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 17(4):147-198. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2569195

1928    The Material Response of the Polar Eskimo to Their Far Arctic Environment (Continued). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 18(1):1-24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2560835

1936    Eskimo Dogs-Forgotten Heroes. Natural History 37:173-184. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6360

1947    Distribution of settlement among the Polar Eskimo. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society 8(3):39-43. http://library.bridgew.edu/exhibits/BMAS/pdf/MAS-v08n03.pdf

 

Folsom, Justus Watson, Maurice Cole Tanquary and Walter Elmer Ekblaw

1919    Collembola from the Crocker Land Expedition 1913-1917. New York: Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1884

 

Frison, Theodore Henry, and Walter Elmer Ekblaw

1919    Report on the Bremidae Collected by the Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917: order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1355

 

Green, Fitzhugh

1917-1918       Arctic duty with the Crocker Land Expedition. United States Naval Institute Proceedings 43 and 44(9-12 , and 1).

1928    The Crocker Land Expedition. Natural History:463-475. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6351

 

Hovey, Edmund Otis

1918    Child-life among the Smith Sound Eskimos. American Museum Journal 18(5):360-371. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44915 – page/419/mode/1up

 

Hunt, Harrison J., and Ruth Hunt Thompson

1980    North to the horizon: searching for Peary’s Crocker Land. Camden, ME: Down East.

 

MacMillan, Donald Baxter.

1918a  Food Supply of the Smith Sound Eskimos: a story of primitive life maintained on the natural resources of a frozen Arctic land and sea. The American Museum Journal 18(3):161-176. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44915 – page/198/mode/1up

1918b  Scenes from the eastern Arctic. American Museum Journal 18(3):177-192. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44915 – page/215/mode/1up

1918c  Four years in the white North. New York: Harper and Brothers. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/24143

1928    Geographical report of the Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 56, article 6.  http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1746

 

Nichols, John Treadwell, and Maurice Cole Tanquary

1918    Some marine fishes from northwest Greenland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 38(article 19). http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1812

 

Osburn, Raymond Carroll, Maurice Cole Tanquary, Walter Elmer Ekblaw and Edmund Otis Hovey

1919    Bryozoa of the Crocker Land Expedition: order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1137

 

Welch, Paul Smith and Maurice Cole Tanquary

1921    Pligochaeta collected in Greenland by the Crocker Land Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44(article 15):269-274. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1151

 

Wissler, Clark

1918    Archaeology of the Polar Eskimo. Volume 22 part 3. New York: American Museum of Natural History. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/85

 

Books and Articles about the expedition:

Kaplan, Susan A, and Edmund Searles

2000   Donald B. Macmillan and the Polar Eskimos 1913-1917. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 25(1). Donald MacMillan and Polar Eskimos 1913-1917

Welky, David

2017   A wretched and precarious situation: In search of the last Arctic frontier. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/A-Wretched-and-Precarious-Situation/