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Book Alaska  Past and Present

Download or read book Alaska Past and Present written by Clarence Charles Hulley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1970 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the history of the vast region that was granted statehood in 1959. Details of the Russian occupation, U.S. possession, the gold rushes, the area's strategic importance during World War II, and its petroleum resources are given.

Book The Last New Land

Download or read book The Last New Land written by Wayne Mergler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mergler has scoured Alaska's literary tradition for the best writing the state has to offer. "The Last New Land" gathers a rich and comprehensive sampling of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Northland.

Book Alaska

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  • Author : Joanne Mattern
  • Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
  • Release : 2010-08-15
  • ISBN : 1435894758
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Alaska written by Joanne Mattern and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the history, culture, geography and people of Alaska.

Book The Alaska 67

Download or read book The Alaska 67 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska

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  • Author : Claus M. Naske
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-10-22
  • ISBN : 0806186135
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Alaska written by Claus M. Naske and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.

Book Alaska s History

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  • Author : Harry Ritter
  • Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
  • Release : 1993-04-01
  • ISBN : 0882409727
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book Alaska s History written by Harry Ritter and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, take along account of Alaska's sweeping history made vivid with historical photos and entertaining essays. Topics covered include Native lifestyles before contact with the Europeans; Alexander Baranov and the Russian fur trade; John Muir's visit to Glacier Bay in 1879; the Klondike gold rush stampede; pioneer climbs on Mount McKinley; the exploits of early Alaska Bush pilots; big game hunting in the North Country; Alaska's fisheries, where salmon is king; and today's Native traditions. A history book that's fun to read, Alaska's History sets forth the Last Frontier's glorious past and challenging present.

Book Alaska at 50

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  • Author : Gregory W. Kimura
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2010-03-15
  • ISBN : 1602231087
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Alaska at 50 written by Gregory W. Kimura and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009 Alaska celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of U.S. statehood. To commemorate that milestone, Alaska at 50 brings together some of today’s most noteworthy and recognizable writers and researchers to address the past, present, and future of Alaska. Divided into three overarching sections—art, culture, and humanities; law, economy, and politics; and environment, people, and place—Alaska at 50 is written in highly accessible prose. Illustrations and photographs of significant artefacts of Alaska history enliven the text. Each contributor brings a strong voice and prescription for the next fifty years, and the resulting work presents Alaskans and the nation with an overview of Alaska statehood and ideas for future development.

Book Alaska  Its Past  Present  Future

Download or read book Alaska Its Past Present Future written by Alaska. Governor (1921-1925 : Bone) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chasing Alaska

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  • Author : C. B. Bernard
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 0762794283
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Chasing Alaska written by C. B. Bernard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, he threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine environment, forming a landscape view of the place that had lured him and “Uncle Joe,” both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.

Book Alaska

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  • Author : Archibald Williamson Shiels
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Alaska written by Archibald Williamson Shiels and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska  Past and Present  by Clarence C  Hulley

Download or read book Alaska Past and Present by Clarence C Hulley written by Clarence Charles Hulley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Our Cultures  Sharing Our Heritage

Download or read book Living Our Cultures Sharing Our Heritage written by Aron A. Crowell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska features more than 200 objects representing the masterful artistry and design traditions of twenty Alaska Native peoples. Based on a collaborative exhibition created by Alaska Native communities, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, this richly illustrated volume celebrates both the long-awaited return of ancestral treasures to their native homeland and the diverse cultures in which they were created. Despite the North's transformation through globalizing change, the objects shown in these pages are interpretable within ongoing cultural frames, articulated in languges still spoken. They were made for a way of life on the land that is carried on today throughout Alaska. Dialogue with the region's First Peoples evokes past meanings but focuses equally on contemporary values, practices, and identities. Objects and narratives show how each Alaska Native nation is unique—and how all are connected. After introductions to the history of the land and its people, universal themes of “Sea, Land, Rivers,” “Family and Community,” and “Ceremony and Celebration” are explored referencing exquisite masks, parkas, beaded garments, basketry, weapons, and carvings that embody the diverse environments and practices of their makers. Accompanied by traditional stories and personal accounts by Alaska Native elders, artists, and scholars, each piece featured in Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage evokes both historical and contemporary meaning, and breathes the life of its people.

Book Chills and Fever

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  • Author : Robert Fortuine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Chills and Fever written by Robert Fortuine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the World Conference on Infancy as Prevention held in the summer of 1984, Athens, Greece. Thirty-seven contributions address prevention, intervention, parent-infant interaction, cognition and education, health and behavior, day care, the impaired child, adoption, and the family. Alk. paper. Dr. Fortuine, retired from the Indian Health Service and currently on the biomedical faculty of the U. of Alaska Anchorage, provides an insightful review of early Alaskan history from a unique perspective--the health of its people. In particular, he addresses the ways in which the European and American settlement of Alaska affected the health and daily lives of Alaska Natives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Alaska

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  • Author : Stephen W. Haycox
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780295986296
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Alaska written by Stephen W. Haycox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new paper edition of the state's history, which focuses on Russian America and American Alaska.

Book The Last New Land

Download or read book The Last New Land written by Wayne Mergler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska  Its Past  Present  Future

Download or read book Alaska Its Past Present Future written by Scott Cardelle Bone and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Pursuit of Alaska

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  • Author : Jean Morgan Meaux
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2013-07-15
  • ISBN : 0295804726
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book In Pursuit of Alaska written by Jean Morgan Meaux and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Alaskan adventures begins with a newspaper article written by John Muir during his first visit to Alaska in 1879, when the sole U.S. government representative in all the territory's 586,412 square miles was a lone customs official in Sitka. It closes with accounts of the gold rush and the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Jean Meaux has gathered a superb collection of articles and stories that captivated American readers when they were first published and that will continue to entertain us today. The authors range from Charles Hallock (the founder of Forest and Stream, a precursor of Field and Stream) to New York society woman Mary Hitchcock, who traveled with china, silver, and a 2,800 square foot tent. After explorer Henry Allen wore out his boots, he marched barefoot as he continued mapping the Tanana River, and Episcopal Archdeacon Hudson Stuck mushed by dog sled in Arctic winters across a territory encompassing 250,000 miles of the northern interior. Although the United States acquired Alaska in 1867, it took more than a decade for American writers and explorers to focus attention on a territory so removed from their ordinary lives. These writers-adventurers, tourists, and gold seekers-would help define the nation's perception of Alaska and would contribute to an image of the state that persists today. This collection unearths early writings that offer a broad view of American encounters with Alaska accompanied by Meaux's lively and concise introductions. The present-day adventurer will find much to inspire exploration, while students of the American West can gain new access to this valuable trove of pre-Gold Rush Alaska archives. For more information go to: http://www.inpursuitofalaska.com