Book

Alaska and its history

Sherwood, Morgan B. (compiler.).

Record details

Physical Description: print
xx, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Seattle, University of Washington Press [1967]
Copyright: ©1967

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. The Russian period. The Russian eastward movement : some observations on it historical significance / Robert Joseph Kerner -- History of explorations and surveys / Alfred Hulse Brooks -- Settlement of Sitka / Clarence L. Andrews -- The tragedy of Anna Petrovna / Hector Chevigny -- Geog Anton Schäffer, Russia's man in Hawaii, 1815-1817 / Richard A. Pierce -- Drawing the Alaskan boundary / Stuart R. Tompkins -- Campbell of the Yukon / Lawrence J. Burpee -- Alaska's "Good Father" / Helen A. Shenitz -- The Russian withdrawal from California / Clarence John Du Four -- Mining in Alaska before 1867 / Frank A. Golder -- Part 2. The transition. The prelude to Russia's departure from America / Anatole G. Mazour -- Alaska Ice, Inc. / E.L. Keithanhn -- The confederate raider Shenandoah / Benjamin Franklin Gilbert -- The Collins Overland Line and American continentalism / Charles Vevier -- The sale of Alaska / Reinhard H. Luthin -- George Davidson and the acquisition of Alaska / Morgan B. Sherwood -- American public opinion and the purchase of Russian America / Richard E. Welch, Jr. -- Part 3. The American period. Sheldon Jackson and Benjamin Harrison / Ted C. Hinckley -- The Anglo-American crisis in the Bering Sea, 1890-1891 / Charles S. Campbell, Jr. -- Advertising and the Klondike / Jeannette Paddock Nichols -- The discovery of gold at Nome, Alaska / L.H. Carlson -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Alaska Boundary Settlement / Thomas A. Bailey -- Ghost railway in Alaska : the story of the Tanana Valley Railroad / Duane Koenig -- Historical survey of the Matanuska Valley Settlement in Alaska / Clarence C. Hulley -- Alaska : progress and problems / Ernest Gruening.