A Woman who Went to Alaska
Author: May Kellogg Sullivan
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative of author's visits in 1899 and 1900-01 to Dawson, Nome and Golovnin Bay.
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A Woman Who Went to Alaska (Classic Reprint)
Author: May Kellogg Sullivan
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781331339793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A Woman Who Went to Alaska About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Two Women in the Klondike
Author: Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1889963682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is an abridement of the original 1899 edition.
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska
Author: Hannah Breece
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-12-30
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0307490548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. "An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times
Race Across Alaska
Author: Libby Riddles
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1988-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780785773931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor use in schools and libraries only. The author recounts her experiences in the 1985 Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome Alaska, and shares her insights on strategy, sled dogs, and winter survival.
Old Yukon
Author: James Wickersham
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1602231133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this humorous and upbeat memoir, James Wickersham describes his career as a pioneer judge and later as a congressional representative assigned to a vast, snow-covered district, extending over 300,000 square miles in the undeveloped Alaska Territory. Wickersham’s many adventures include traveling by dogsled over hundreds of miles through snow-covered mountains; serving as judge for the trials of many famous outlaws in the midst of the gold strikes; and hunting, mining, and climbing in his local Alaska wilderness. Though he was instrumental in the early history of Alaska, and his legacy is evident throughout the state—for example, he named the city of Fairbanks—this is the first and only work to focus on Wickersham’s life during this pivotal time in Alaska’s history.
Social Life in Northwest Alaska
Author: Ernest S. Burch
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1889963925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
THE ALASKAN
Author: James Oliver Curwood
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2024-01-16
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis carefully crafted ebook: "THE ALASKAN" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Captain Rifle, Grey and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty country had not died out of his veins. He could still see the picturesque, feel the thrill of the unusual, and--at times--warm memories crowded upon him so closely that yesterday seemed today, and Alaska was young again, thrilling the world with her wild call..." (Excerpt) James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among top-ten best sellers in the United States and at least eighteen motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories. At the time of his death, he was the highest paid (per word) author in the world. His writing studio, Curwood Castle, is now a museum in Owosso, Michigan.
More Iditarod Classics
Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780972494489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPicking up where the best-selling Iditarod Classics left off, this new collection of insightful and hair-raising stories introduces readers to more of the men and women who brave the annual 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome. Champions Doug Swingley, Martin Buser, Jeff King, and others tell how they came to love the race, how they train their dogs and themselves, and how they challenge the elements of The Last Great Race. For Alaskan heroes such as DeeDee Jonrowe, Emmit Peters, and Ramy Brooks, the Iditarod is always punishing but not punishing enough to deter them from trying again next year.
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 258
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