Aunt Phil's Trunk : Bringing Alaska's history alive!

• Autore: Bill Laurel
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : Aunt Phil's Trunk LLC, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 pages)
• Disciplina: 979
• Soggetto topico: Alaska--History--Anecdotes; Gold mines and mining
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- The Big Year -- Chapter 1 The People's Governor -- Chapter 2 Move The Capital -- Chapter 3 First State Legislature -- Chapter 4 From Forest To Flagpole -- First Five Years of Statehood -- Chapter 5 Post Article Causes Concern -- Chapter 6 Blue Canoes Make Debut -- Chapter 7 The Lost Alaskans -- Earthquake! -- Chapter 8 Good Friday 1964 -- Chapter 9 Anchorage Hit Hard -- Chapter 10 Wild Waves Bash Whittier -- Chapter 11 Seawater Seeps Into Portage -- Chapter 12 Alaska Railroad Damaged -- Chapter 13 Seward Burns -- Chapter 14 Valdez Washed Away -- Chapter 15 Chenega Destroyed -- Chapter 16 Cordova And Other Small Towns -- Chapter 17 Tidal Waves Overtake Kodiak -- Chapter 18 Villages Near Kodiak In Ruins -- Chapter 19 Alaskans Learn They're Not Alone -- Chapter 20 Rebuilding Better Than Before -- Alaska Land In Dispute -- Chapter 21 Homesteaders Head North -- Chapter 22 Who Owns The Land? -- Chapter 23 Rock, Native Unity and Land Claims -- Chapter 24 Natives Must Prove Land Use -- Prudhoe Bay Oil -- Chapter 25 Black Gold Found On North Slope -- Chapter 26 Deadhorse Rises in theArctic -- Chapter 27 Plans For a Pipeline Progress -- Chapter 28 Pipeline Snakes Across Alaska -- Some Highlights -- Chapter 29 Iceworm Revives Cordova -- Chapter 30 The Painting Pachyderm -- Chapter 31 Betty The Firetruck -- Chapter 32 A Great Race is Born -- Some Low Points -- Chapter 33 Cordova Burns -- Chapter 34 Floodwaters Fill Fairbanks -- Chapter 35 Congressmen Disappear -- Mass Murder In the North -- Chapter 36 Massage Parlor Murders -- Chapter 37 Anchorage Dancers Become Prey -- Chapter 38 The Mail Day Murders -- Chapter 39 Massacre At Manley -- 25 Years In the News -- Chapter 40 1960s: In The News -- Chapter 41 1970s: In The News -- Chapter 42 1980s: In The News -- About the Authors. ; Bibliograpy -- Preview Other Volumes Aunt Phil's Trunk -- Preview Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume One -- Preview Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Two -- Preview Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three -- Preview Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four -- More Books Available.
• Sommario/riassunto: Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three continues to entertain readers as they travel through Alaska's history from 1912 to 1935. This book of nonfiction short stories highlights the pioneering spirit of early Alaskans as they enter a new era as a territory of the United States. As with the first two books, volume three is filled with more than 300 historical photographs.Readers follow along as men with axes, hammers and mauls pound a path through the vast Alaska wilderness to lay tracks that connect the deep-water port of Seward in the south to the territory's interior town of Fairbanks in the north. Through the stories in this volume, readers will see a railroad construction town grow out of the tundra to become Anchorage - the largest city in Alaska.Volume three also shares stories about epidemics and disasters, including the Great Sickness of 1918, the sinking of the steamship Princess Sophia in Southeast Alaska and the incredible serum run to Nome in 1925.Did you know there was a rescue mission to save a banker in Iditarod four years before the famed Nome diphtheria run? That story unfolds between the pages of this book, as well.In addition, this book shines a light on the early aviators who blazed new trails through Alaska skies in the 1920s, how the Alaska Native people struggled for recognition and how farmers from America's Midwest carved out an agricultural community in the wild Matanuska Valley."Aunt Phil's Trunk" is a true Alaska treasure trove. The illustrations alone are worth the 19.95 price, but the narratives from front to back are equally praiseworthy. For those who love Alaska history, this easy-to-read collection is highly recommended." - William J. Tobin, Senior Editor, Voice of the Times.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aunt Phil's Trunk
• ISBN: 1-940479-02-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910156209703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II