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It was started when several of , and precipitated the US purchase of Alaska. The story of that adventure is covered in a book, "Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph," by: [http://www.writersunion.ca

eering.htm Rosemary Neering], and a personal account by one member of the expedition is a diary of Franklin Leonard Pope , documented as part of a biography of him at Telegraph History