When Eric A. Hegg rushed north to Alaska in 1897 he was a journeyman photographer, largely self-trained. He forced a sled load of photographic equipment across the coastal mountains in the dead of winter. He hiked out to the claims on Bonanza and Eldorado, and he poked his camera into the banks and bars and bordellos in Dawson. He rode a paddle-wheel steamer down the Yukon to the Bering and was on ...

Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
Written By: Murray Cromwell Morgan

Manufacturer: Kathy a Lewis
Written By: Georgine B. Sonsteby, Kathy A. Lewis

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: University of Washington Press
Written By: Dorothy Jean Ray

Manufacturer: Lynn Canal Publishing
Written By: Glenda Choate

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

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
Written By: Ed Ferrell

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

Manufacturer: Heritage Books

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

Manufacturer: Heritage Books

Manufacturer: Heritage Quest
Written By: Connie Bradbury