Elisha Kent Kane: References & Edit History
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Ken McGoogan, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane (2008); Mark Metzler Sawin, Raising Kane: Elisha Kent Kane and the Culture of Fame in Antebellum America (2008); David Chapin, Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity (2004); Ray Edinger, Love and Ice: The Tragic Obsessions of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorer (2015).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 30, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 18, 2024 | ||
| Invalidated site: Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853,54,55. | Mar 03, 2017 | ||
| New bibliography added. |
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Aug 17, 2015 | |
| Media added. | Dec 16, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Elisha K. Kane. | Nov 12, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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