A guide to Alaska, last American frontier
Title:
A guide to Alaska, last American frontier
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by Merle Colby, Federal Writers' Project ; John W. Troy, governor of Alaska, sponsor.
Publication Information:
New York : Macmillan Company, 1939.
Physical Description:
lxv, 427 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some folded) ; 21 cm.
Series:
General Note:
Two maps (1 color) on single folded sheet in back pocket.
Maps on lining-papers.
The plates are in eight groups, each preceded by half-title not included in paging.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-410) and index.
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Personal Name:
Woodrow Johansen Donor
Contents:
Preliminary Information -- Popular errors about alaska -- The six alaskas -- Tours for "Round-trippers" -- Part I: The Great Land -- Alaska comes of age -- History -- The people -- population -- the whites -- the natives -- labor -- Government -- Natural wealth -- fish and aquatic animals -- minerals -- fur -- reindeer -- agriculture -- forests -- Commerce -- Transportation -- Communication -- National Defense -- Part II: The Last Frontier -- The inside passage and southeastern alaska -- seattle to 54° 40' by ocean steamer -- southeastern alaska -- The yukon trail -- juneau to skagway by ocean steamer -- skagway to whitehorse by the white pass and yukon railway -- whitehorse to dawson by river steamer -- dawson to nenana by river steamer -- tanana to yukon delta by river steamer -- Glacier country and the old copper river railroad -- juneau to cordova by ocean steamer -- cordova to chitina by the copper river and northwestern railroad -- The Richardson Trail -- cordova to valdez by ocean steamer -- valdez to willow creek by the richardson highway -- willow creek to chitina by the edgerton cutoff -- chitina to kennicott by the copper river and northwestern railroad -- willow creek to fairbanks by the richardson highway -- By Rail to the Interior -- valdez to seward by ocean steamer -- seward to fairbanks by the alaska railroad -- The Golden Heart -- fairbanks and vicinity -- fairbanks to circle by the steese highway -- To the Westward -- seward to bristol bay by ocean steamer -- Bristol Bay and the Kuksowim Country -- bristol bay -- dillingham to bethel -- the bering sea coast to the mouth of the yukon -- bethel to fairbanks by plane -- Seward Peninsula and Northwestern Alaska -- st. michael to nome -- nome and vicinity -- nome to kotzebue sound -- The Artic -- kotzbue sound to barrow -- an artic neighbor (arctic siberia) -- Books About Alaska