In pursuit of Alaska : an anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meaux, Jean Morgan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2013.
Temas:
1867-1959
Travelers' writings.
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Écrits de voyageurs.
travel literature.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Reference.
TRAVEL > Road Travel.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Adventure.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Frontier and pioneer life
Travel
Travelers' writings
Alaska > Description and travel > Anecdotes.
Alaska > History > 1867-1959 > Anecdotes.
Alaska > Descriptions et voyages > Anecdotes.
Alaska > Histoire > 1867-1959 > Anecdotes.
Alaska
Anecdotes
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth
  • Note on Original Sources
  • Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska
  • Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir
  • A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock
  • The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine
  • The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis
  • Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr.
  • Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown
  • Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard
  • Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen
  • Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr
  • Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner
  • Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich
  • Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt
  • One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie
  • From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn
  • Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert
  • Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck
  • Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold
  • Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll
  • Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk
  • Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock
  • The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester
  • A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr
  • Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell
  • No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan
  • Playing for Stakes / M. Clark
  • The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine
  • The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell
  • On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz
  • Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey
  • Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest
  • Chronology of Alaska History through 1910.

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