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DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Barr. Joe Hoyt. Madeline Roth. Beth Crumley. John Bright.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Revenue Cutter BEAR was a ship of many lives and significant accomplishments. Orignally built as a sealer, BEAR gained distinction for its 1884 rescue of Greely Expedition survivors. Subsequent decades were spent in polar waters where BEAR operated as an Arctic U.S. Revenue Cutter and flagship for Byrd's two Antarctic...