Author : Merle Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468413645
A guide to Alaska
Merle Colby
Alaska A Guide To Alaska Last American Frontier
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Alaska: A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781603540025
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A Guide to Alaska
Federal Writers' Project. Alaska,Merle Colby
Author : Federal Writers' Project. Alaska,Merle Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Alaska
ISBN : OCLC:4736776
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A Guide to Alaska
Federal Writers' Project,Merle Colby
Author : Federal Writers' Project,Merle Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:3427783
A Guide to Alaska by Federal Writers' Project,Merle Colby Pdf
A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier,
Federal Writers' Project
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 162376002X
A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier, by Federal Writers' Project Pdf
by Merle Colby, Federal writers' project
Alaska
Federal W Works Progress Administra
Author : Federal W Works Progress Administra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1558883525
Alaska by Federal W Works Progress Administra Pdf
Alaska
Federal Writers' Project Staff,Writers Program Staff
Author : Federal Writers' Project Staff,Writers Program Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 078121002X
Alaska by Federal Writers' Project Staff,Writers Program Staff Pdf
Bonded Leather binding
GUIDE TO ALASKA
MERLE. COLBY
Author : MERLE. COLBY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033371319
GUIDE TO ALASKA by MERLE. COLBY Pdf
A Guide to Alaska
Merle Colby
Author : Merle Colby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0282466436
A Guide to Alaska by Merle Colby Pdf
Excerpt from A Guide to Alaska: Last American Frontier Scarcely more than a generation ago, well within the memory of many living Alaskans, the news was flashed in 1897 over telegraph wires that the steamer Portland had arrived in Seattle with a ton of gold. Immediately a feverish interest was awakened in a little-known and still largely unexplored possession of the United States - Alaska. Names made familiar during the days that followed - Klondike, Chil koot Pass, Yukon Trail, Nome Beach - and the exploits of those con nected with them - are familiar to every school child and have passed into the written and unwritten folklore of the nation. Even more important, and certainly no less dramatic, is the less known Alaska of today - the Alaska of graveled automobile roads, of airplanes, used as casually by Alaskans as are taxis in continental United States, of giant gold dredges, of great fishing fleets, of farms with the latest in modern equipment, of homes set in frames of flowers and surrounded with vegetable gardens, of large shops, theaters, churches, schools, clubs, newspapers, and America's farthest-north university. Alaska may be the United States' last frontier, but in its application of tomorrow's techniques to present - day mining and agri culture, in its revolutionary use of air transportation, in the energy and inventiveness of its citizens, Alaska deserves no less the name of the United States' foremost frontier. Readers with vague schoolroom ideas of Alaska as a frozen land of ice and snow, the principal occupa tions of whose inhabitants are panning gold and hunting bear, may, as they turn these pages, find themselves deprived of many cherished illusions, but they will be compensated with some of the most sig nificant episodes in the stirring story of America. I am happy to sponsor this volume, in the hope that it not only will bring to residents of continental United States a renewed interest in their fellow-americans of Alaska, but will encourage them to see with their own eyes Alaska's physical grandeur and its hardly less remark able technological development. The selection of the subject matter, however, and the editing and arrangement of material are the sole responsibility of the writer selected for this task by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. 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.
Alaska
Emily Rose Oachs
Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612117973
Alaska by Emily Rose Oachs Pdf
When we think of Alaska, we often think of snow. The state is home to Glacier Bay, the Juneau Ice Field, skijoring, and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. In this book, discover how the chilled landscapes, abundant wildlife, and native traditions influence life in our nationÕs northernmost state.
Last Frontier
Alaska Magazine,Jill Shepherd
Author : Alaska Magazine,Jill Shepherd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493082681
Last Frontier by Alaska Magazine,Jill Shepherd Pdf
Since 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquakes, tidal waves, grizzly and polar bear attacks, the Russian influence, the Gold Rush, the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians during World War II, hunting and fishing, the lives of sourdoughs, village life, and much more, The Last Frontier truly captures the essence of our largest state. Other chapters include the tale of the Eskimo commercial pilot, flying villagers across the Arctic. Or the one about the young woman who conducted the 1940 census in the Interior by dog team. Or the story about the family who placed their automobile on a raft, hooked paddles to the axles, and steered their home-built paddle-wheeler down the Yukon River to the first road-whereupon they removed the car from the barge, and drove home to Nebraska.Other stories you won't want to miss in this book include: Don Sheldon's floatplane rescue of eight men from white water; the mystery of Klutuk, the beast of the tundra; how Julie Collins's sled dog saved her life; the trials and tribulations of a nurse running a hospital on the arctic coast in 1921; an Athabascan writer interviews her grandmother, a medicine woman; newsworthy events across the state and much, much more.
Alaska
Leslie Strudwick
Author : Leslie Strudwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 1489648194
Alaska by Leslie Strudwick Pdf
The United States of America is made up of many states and territories. The Discover America series uses exciting images and informative text to guide readers through the history, landscape, and identity of each U.S. state, territory, and district. --Amazon.
Global West, American Frontier
David M. Wrobel
Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826353719
Global West, American Frontier by David M. Wrobel Pdf
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
The WPA Guide to Alaska
Federal Writers' Project
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342003
The WPA Guide to Alaska by Federal Writers' Project Pdf
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide the Alaskan Territory takes the reader on a journey across the Land of the Midnight Sun, from the North Slope to the Aleutian Islands. First published in 1939, the guide reports on all the things that make this soon-to-be state unique: the influence of Alaska’s indigenous peoples, the thriving fishing industry, and the distinctive flora and fauna.
Tip of the Iceberg
Mark Adams
Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781101985113
Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams Pdf
**The National Bestseller** From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws one million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and as a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers. Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Traveling town to town by water, Adams ventures three thousand miles north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, then continues west into the colder and stranger regions of the Aleutians and the Arctic Circle. Along the way, he encounters dozens of unusual characters (and a couple of very hungry bears) and investigates how lessons learned in 1899 might relate to Alaska's current struggles in adapting to the pressures of a changing climate and world.