Recollections of the Youkon : memoires from the years 1868-1885
Title:
Recollections of the Youkon : memoires from the years 1868-1885
JLCTITLE245:
by François Xavier Mercier ; translated, edited, and annotated by Linda Finn Yarborough.
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Publication Information:
Anchorage, Alaska : Alaska Historical Society, c1986.
Physical Description:
xv, 102 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
Memoirs dealing with the Yukon District, the area from the Yukon River Delta to the Klondike River, which include information on the first women in the area; miners in the district; the first Catholic missionaries; trading posts along the Yukon River and their inhabitants; Senate, chief of the Kutchin; and explorers and visitors to the district. He was responsible for establishing of Fort Reliance, now Dawson City. Translated from French.
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. 91-95.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Time line: Fort Reliance -- Trading posts and fur traders -- First white women in the Youkon District -- Early prospectors -- Monsignor Clut, the First Catholic Missionary -- Travels of Monsignor Seghers -- Senate, Chief of the Coutcha-Kutchin -- Explorers and government officials -- Trading companies and their employees -- Settlements along the Youkon -- Appendix: Maps of the Youkon District -- Bibliography -- Index.