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Autore |
Meaux Jean Morgan |
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In Pursuit of Alaska : An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909 / / Jean Morgan Meaux |
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Travelers' writings |
Travel |
Frontier and pioneer life |
HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
TRAVEL - Special Interest - Adventure |
TRAVEL - Road Travel |
TRAVEL - Reference |
TRAVEL - Parks & Campgrounds |
TRAVEL - Special Interest - Ecotourism |
TRAVEL - Budget |
TRAVEL - Hikes & Walks |
TRAVEL - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest |
Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska |
History |
Anecdotes. |
Alaska |
Alaska History 1867-1959 Anecdotes |
Alaska Description and travel Anecdotes |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth -- Note on Original Sources -- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska -- Fort |
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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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