Title:
The fishermen's frontier : people and salmon in Southeast Alaska
JLCTITLE245:
David F. Arnold ; foreword by William Cronon.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st paperback ed.
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2011, c2008.
Physical Description:
xvii, 267 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780295987880
9780295991375
Series:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword: on the saltwater margins of a northern frontier / by William Cronon -- Introduction: the fishermen's frontier in southeast Alaska -- First fishermen: the aboriginal salmon fishery -- The industrial transformation of the Indian salmon fishery, 1780s-1910s -- Federal conservation, fish traps, and the struggle to control the fishery, 1889-1959 -- Work, nature, race, and culture on the fishermen's frontier, 1900s-1950s -- The closing of the fishermen's frontier, 1950s-2000s -- Epilogue: endangered species?