First-class passenger on steamer Alliance, departing Seattle 2/16/98, Seattle P-I, 2/17/98; Townsend party, sets camp at rapids of Klutena and prospects Tazlina and Quartz Creek, Beaver Falls Weekly Tribune, 7/26/99 in Townsend Letters; develops scurvy, Townsend sends out to Valdez, Beaver Falls Weekly Tribune, 7/26/99 in Townsend Letters ;