An Alaskan reader, 1867-1967,
Title:
An Alaskan reader, 1867-1967,
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selected and edited by Ernest Gruening.
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Edition:
[1st ed.].
Publication Information:
New York, Meredith Press [1967, ©1966]
Physical Description:
xvi, 443 pages 25 cm
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Contents:
Introduction -- Discover of Alaska -- Era of Aleksandr Baranov -- Story of Russian America -- Cession of Russian America to the United States -- Americans take over -- Civil government in the 1880's -- North of fifty-three -- Gold rush tales -- Poet of the Klondike -- Rush to Nome -- Looting -- Alaskan justice -- On the trail of the goldseekers -- Laying the line -- Eruption of Katmai -- Lindberghs visit Nome -- Battle of the Komandorski Islands -- Bush pilots -- German Journalist's view -- Edna Ferber helps the cause of statehood -- Alaska's Eskimo people -- Alaskan scenery -- Challenge of the mountains -- Hunting for game -- Climythology -- Struggle for statehood -- Homesteading the Alaskan range -- Contemporary Alaskan Poetry.