This work fills a void by making obscure and unindexed material available to researchers in Alaskan and Canadian history and genealogy. It is rich in Northwest history, and should appeal to researchers in the West and Northwest whose ancestors may have been Alaska-Yukon immigrants. Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco were points of departure and return; some of the immigrants settled in those ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books, Inc.
Written By: Ed Ferrell

As late as mid-1941 the two territories of Alaska and Hawai’i were little known by most Americans. Alaska was seen as a frozen wasteland and Hawai’i, an exotic outpost in the mid-Pacific with a multi-racial, particularly Asian, population. The bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and the capture of two Aleutian Islands in 1942 made the two territories central theaters of World War II. ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: John S. Whitehead

Manufacturer: Heritage Quest
Written By: Connie Bradbury

Manufacturer: Pilot Pub
Written By: Donald R Nelson

Manufacturer: The Author
Written By: Helen J Simeonoff

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Written By: Timothy Laitila Vincent

Manufacturer: Juneau Pioneers of Alaska

This first volume in the New American West Series explores Alaska's vast national-park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the 20th century. After World War II, the continued presence of human habitation forced a complex debate over "inhabited wilderness", which culminated in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. The author focuses on three principal national ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Theodore , Catton

the third volume in the series of Alaska biographies compiled from newspaper obituaries, books, etc.

Manufacturer: Heritage Books

Manufacturer: The Author
Written By: Marydith Beeman