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Author | : Alfred Hulse Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
New edition of 1953 publication which includes a biography of Brooks and his account of the true first ascent of Mount McKinley.
Author | : Claus-M. Naske |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806125732 |
History of the state of Alaska from early to contemporary times, discussing its native peoples, sale to the United States, gold rush, quest for statehood, and oil boom.
Author | : Melody Webb |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803297456 |
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls "the technological frontier." Colorful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land "remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions." ø
Author | : Stephen W. Haycox |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295986296 |
A new paper edition of the state's history, which focuses on Russian America and American Alaska.
Author | : Debbie S. Miller |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2006-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802777236 |
Relates the story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome, and includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it. Reprint.
Author | : Melody Webb |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780774804417 |
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
Author | : Betty Glad |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1986-08-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780231515658 |
Author | : Walter R. Borneman |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 1069 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0061865273 |
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.
Author | : Thomas A. Morehouse |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780819137715 |
Author | : Mary F. Ehrlander |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803295901 |
2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska’s Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913. Walter’s strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded, and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska. Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today’s readers.