Lt. Henry Allen

Twenty-five-year-old Army Lt. Henry Allen stood in the Alaskan wilderness in 1885, staring up at the giant columns of frozen ice draping down from rapids of the Copper River. He was trying to see a path upward. Little did he know that one day he would nearly surpass Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s record of exploring and mapping virgin territory. The Russians had already charted the Alaskan coast, but no one knew what laid beyond. Walls of ice in Alaska would not stop Lt. Allen. After