Brookfield, Second Lt. R.M.

Brookfield, Second Lt. R.M.

1898-1899

Located Lot 5: Block 6 in Valdez townsite 4/17/1898, recorded 5/10/1898, V-Lot, Index , p.34; Army Officers on steamer Valencia, departing Seattle 4/7/98, Seattle P-I 4/8/98 & Seattle Times, 4/8/98; Hired by Valdez citizens to survey townsite, April 25, 1898 for $10. Minutes.CS1; snowblind on glacier, MB-D, 5/4/98; went fishing with Bjornstad, MB-D, 5/16/98; Lt. Brookfield, Bence, and Gardner to start over the Hogback, donkeys broke through so couldn’t go, MB-D, 5/19/98; Brookfield, Heiden and Gardner left to go across Hogback, 5/26/98, MB-D; (first?) to float Keystone Canyon with Lewis, Gardner, & Flemmings in 1898, Powell, Trailing, p. 147-149; arrived with a civilian very late at night in Bjornstad’s camp near Keystone Canyon following upset of raft, had supper, headed for Valdez camp, MB-D, 6/3/98; V-Lot, Index , p.34; With Abercrombie 1898, led trips up Valdez Glacier, Corbin Pass, first to descend Lowe River through Keystone Canyon, Brookfield in Glenn and Abercrombie, 1899; Preston & Brookfield returned to states on Steamer Protection. MB-D, 7/7/98;