![]() ![]() Caravantes points that the men were totally unprepared and overly optimistic. All four men perished, and Ada had to survive alone until she was rescued two years after her arrival. Marooned in the Arctic by Peggy Caravantes tells the story of the doomed expedition. Stefansson told the men that the Arctic land could support a comfortable life, that game was abundant, and settlement by Europeans the goal. Crawford to carry out the secret mission. He had hired Errol Lorne Knight, Frederick W. ![]() Bennett needed medical care which Ada could not afford and she took him to the Methodist orphanage for care.Īda heard that the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson was organizing an expedition. Ada divorced Jack and took Bennett to Nome where she cleaned houses and sewed to support them. Two of their children died, Bennett developed tuberculosis, and Jack deserted the family. Ada suffered six years of abuse and starvation from Jack. That was her purpose on the expedition.Īt sixteen Ada married Jack Blackjack and they moved to the Seward Peninsula. Ada never learned traditional Inuit skills, except for having a skill of turning animal skins into clothing. ![]() She was taught English, basic reading and writing skills, and the Christian religion. Her father died when she was eight and her mother sent her to a Methodist mission in Nome. Ada was born in 1898 near Solomon, Alaska. ![]()
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