04742oam 22008894a 450 991079790040332120221024194322.00-295-80472-6(CKB)3710000000493132(EBL)4305937(SSID)ssj0001522624(PQKBManifestationID)12475717(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001522624(PQKBWorkID)11462627(PQKB)10630373(MiAaPQ)EBC4305937(Au-PeEL)EBL4305937(CaPaEBR)ebr11137302(CaONFJC)MIL810686(OCoLC)913562653(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81467(EXLCZ)99371000000049313220130118d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn Pursuit of AlaskaAn Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909 /Jean Morgan MeauxSeattle :University of Washington Press,2013.©2013.1 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-295-99288-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index.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.Travelers' writingsfast(OCoLC)fst01155719Travelfast(OCoLC)fst01155558Frontier and pioneer lifefast(OCoLC)fst00935370HISTORYUnited StatesState & LocalWest (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)bisacshTRAVELSpecial InterestAdventurebisacshTRAVELRoad TravelbisacshTRAVELReferencebisacshTRAVELParks & CampgroundsbisacshTRAVELSpecial InterestEcotourismbisacshTRAVELBudgetbisacshTRAVELHikes & WalksbisacshTRAVELMuseums, Tours, Points of InterestbisacshFrontier and pioneer lifeAlaskaAnecdotesTravelers' writingsAlaskafastAlaskaHistory1867-1959AnecdotesAlaskaDescription and travelAnecdotesHistory.Anecdotes.Travelers' writings.Travel.Frontier and pioneer life.HISTORYState & LocalWest (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)TRAVELSpecial InterestAdventure.TRAVELRoad Travel.TRAVELReference.TRAVELParks & Campgrounds.TRAVELSpecial InterestEcotourism.TRAVELBudget.TRAVELHikes & Walks.TRAVELMuseums, Tours, Points of Interest.Frontier and pioneer lifeTravelers' writings.917.98/03Meaux Jean Morgan1471575MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910797900403321In Pursuit of Alaska3683925UNINA