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The last frontier / Melody Webb.

Summary:

Examines the history of the Yukon Basin. Uses Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of successive frontiers as a means of understanding and interpreting the history of a region which includes parts of B.C., Yukon and Alaska.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0826308090
  • ISBN: 9780826308092
  • ISBN: 0826308104
  • ISBN: 9780826308108
  • Physical Description: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1985.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-394) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Russian and English frontiers. -Trader's frontier. -Early miner's frontier. -Explorer's frontier. -Soldier's frontier. -Klondike frontier and its backwash. -Missionary's and settler's frontier.
Subject:
Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)
Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) > History.
Frontier thesis.
Frontier and pioneer life.
North America > Yukon River Valley.
Canada, Yukon > History.
United States, Alaska > History.
Canada > History.
Frontier.
Genre:
History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library F 912 .Y9 W43 1985 256253 Stacks Available -

Electronic resources

Version of Resource: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0604/85001022.html

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