James West Davidson, and John Rugge. Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure, 1988.
“In July 1903 Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. set out to traverse by canoe and portage one of the last blank spots on the map of North America – 550 miles of the subarctic barrens of Labrador in northern Canada.” Hubbard died. His expedition failed. “…Wallace [Hubbard’s partner] resolved, in 1905, to return to Labrador at the head of his own exploring party to try again.” At the very same time, Mina Hubbard, Hubbard’s widow, to redeem her husband’s honor, had also begun an expedition. And the race was on. This is the story of both the 1903 and 1905 expeditions, the latter being “a race unique in the annals of wilderness exploration.”
Dillon Wallace, The Lure of The Labrador Wild. First Edition, 1905. 1990 paperback Ed.
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