ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In presenting this new edition of my 2006 website on Dillon Wallace's 1913 pilgrimage to Leonidas Hubbard's place of death, I wish to express my thanks to Dillon Wallace III, and his late sister, Ann Wallace McKendry, for their unwavering support for my work of researching and editing the many untitled and reworked chapters typed by their father 90 years ago. The 1913 story has never been published in its entirety, or in book form.

I am honoured by the generous granting to me of publishing rights to the story, by the two Wallace heirs, in recognition of my initiative in making it possible for Dillon Wallace III and me to rediscover Hubbard's last camp and erect a replica of the bronze tablet lost in the rapids in 1913; my work in bringing to light the long-forgotten account of the 1913 expedition; my success in getting features named by Dillon Wallace added to official government maps of Labrador; and my 1975 article on Dillon Wallace in The Beaver magazine, which some have suggested may have had something to do with the numerous magazine stories, documentaries and books on Wallace and Hubbard that followed.

Viewers who wish to learn more about the 1973 rediscovery of Hubbard's last camp may find it worthwhile to visit my other website, The Search for Hubbard's Rock.

The timeless writing style of Wallace's The Lure of the Labrador Wild and The Long Labrador Trail has been left unchanged in his very personal narrative of the return to the "Valley of the Shadow of Death". Original spellings of place names and geographical features have also been retained. Photographs and maps are from my personal collection, and, where marked, from archival sources.

A word of thanks is owed to Bert Riggs and staff members of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives at Memorial University for supplying me with photocopies from the Wallace papers of typescripts by Dillon Wallace containing previously unpublished details of the 1913 journey.

Rudy Mauro
North Bay, Ontario
Canada
February, 2008

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