Robert Edwin Peary, called "one of the greatest of all explorers," claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909. But from the moment his achievement was announced ...

Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened ...

There are also numerous books about whether Peary made it to the North Pole. Two of the best known are The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race for the North Pole by Wally Herbert (Atheneum, ...

In Nicaragua, Peary began to dream of being the one to discover the North Pole. All the while, Robert kept up his courtship with Josephine through six years of far-flung naval assignments ...

He was the captain of the Roosevelt for Robert Peary’s final two attempts to reach the North Pole and was in the final relay party to turn back. Between 1913 and 1918, Bartlett was the captain ...

Henson’s hobbling partner in exploration, Robert Edwin Peary, had lost nine of his 10 ... including a diorama depicting the expedition Henson and Peary made to the North Pole.

A Peary Caribou recovery strategy was released April 29. It details the challenges facing the far-Northern subspecies, whose ...