Download or read book A Land Gone Lonesome written by Dan O'Neill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an expedition into the history of the river and a record of the inimitable inhabitants of the region, historic and contemporary. A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century. Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of a few tough souls clinging to the old ways-even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers-both men and women-are a living archive of North American pioneer values. As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon river world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon.
Download or read book Gold Placers of the Historical Fortymile River Region Alaska written by Warren E. Yeend and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Yukon Charley National Rivers Alaska written by United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed assessment of environmental impacts associated with the establishment of the proposed refuge and the management of these lands. Includes an inventory of the resources of the area.
Download or read book Gold at Fortymile Creek written by Michael Gates and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, based on the accounts of dozens of prospectors, follows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896. Gates captures the essence of these early years of the gold rush, about which very little has been written. He chronicles the trials, hearbreaks, and successes of the unique and hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness. With names like Swiftwater Bill, Crooked Leg Louie, Slobbery Tom, and Tin Kettle George, these men lived in total isolation beyond the borders of civilization. They were often eccentrics and outcasts, who shaped their own rules, their own justice, and their own social order.
Download or read book Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries written by Hudson Stuck and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inclusion of the Fortymile River Into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Fortymile National Wild and Scenic River written by United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Times of a Big River written by Peter J. Marchand and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, eighty million acres were flagged as possible national park land. Field expeditions were tasked with recording what was contained in these vast acres. Under this decree, five men were sent into the sprawling, roadless interior of Alaska, unsure of what they’d encounter and ultimately responsible for the fate of four thousand pristine acres. Life and Times of a Big River follows Peter J. Marchand and his team of biologists as they set out to explore the land that would ultimately become the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Their encounters with strange plants, rare insects, and little-known mammals bring to life a land once thought to be static and monotonous. And their struggles to navigate and adapt to an unforgiving environment capture the rigorous demands of remote field work. Weaving in and out of Marchand's narrative is an account of the natural and cultural history of the area as it relates to the expedition and the region’s Native peoples. Life and Times of a Big River chorincles this riveting, one-of-a-kind journey of uncertainty and discovery from a disparate (and at one point desperate) group of biologists.
Download or read book Yukon Charley National Rivers Proposed written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yukon Territory written by Canada. Department of the Interior. Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yukon Tanana Region Alaska written by John Beaver Mertie and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forty Mile Ch da D k written by Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Heritage and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty Mile townsite is part of the Forty Mile, Fort Cudahy and Fort Constantine Historic Site. The site is located at the mouth of the Fortymile River where it empties into the Yukon River, 67 km upstream from the Alaska/Yukon border and 88 km downriver from Dawson City. This booklet contains information on the Forty Mile townsite, and it's history, with information about the Hän people and early settlers. A guide for a walking tour of the Forty Mile townsite is also included.--Includes text from the document.
Download or read book Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve Alaska written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents alternatives for management and use of resources of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska.
Download or read book Alaska Yukon Caribou written by Olaus Johan Murie and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Klondike and the Yukon Country written by Louis Arthur Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Wild and Scenic River Study Yukon River Ramparts Section Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
