Artifact from 1884 Arctic rescue at Conn. museum

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A reindeer-skin sleeping bag from a 19th century polar rescue expedition, an artifact from an era in which men — toiling through starvation, frostbite and other tribulations — pushed the boundaries of the known Earth ever-farther north, has been rediscovered and displayed at the Barnum Museum.
 
 
 
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