The Cook Inlet collection : two hundred years of selected Alaskan history

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The Cook Inlet collection : two hundred years of selected Alaskan history / edited by Morgan Sherwood ; ill. by Diana Tillion.

Summary:

A collection of curious documents depicting the past economic, social, biological, and geological activity in the Cook Inlet area of Alaska.

Record details

ISBN: 0882400444
ISBN: 9780882400440
Physical Description: xii, 222 pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 22 cm
Publisher: Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., ©1974.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Magical cave paintings (from Prehistoric Alaska) / Frederica de Laguna -- Tanaina tales / Cornelius Osgood -- Lost European colony in 16th century Alaska / Richard Pierce -- Ecological mystery / H.J. Lutz -- Northwest passage? Not likely (1778) / James Cook -- Promised land in 1786 / William Beresford -- Foreign greed and cupidity, 1786-1790 / I.A. Pil -- Trade War in the late 18th century / A.A. Baranov -- Unpleasant visit to Kenai in 1795 / George Vancouver -- Tragic case of the fallen monk (1796-?) / H.H. Bancroft -- Remarks about the occurrence of gold, 1848-1855 / Petr Doroshin -- Congressional debate in 1868 -- Army arrives, 1868-1869 / Alfred L. Hough -- White-water adventure in 1870 / Polaris -- Eldorado in 1883 / J.A. Jacobsen -- Great eruption in 1883 / George Davidson -- Salmon fishery at the end of the century / Claude Cane -- Forgotten shore in 1890 / Robert Porter -- Coal rush / William Healey Dall -- Other rush in 1896-1898 / Walter C. Mendenhall -- Petroleum on the west shore, 1882-1906 / Fred H. Moffitt -- Farming the subarctic frontier in 1898 / C.C. Georgeson -- Flora (1900) / Wilfred H. Osgood -- Headhunting among the forget-me-nots in 1902 / Colonel Claude Cane -- To the Oregon robin in Alaska (1899) / John Burroughs -- Doubtful conquest in 1906 / Frederick W. Cook and Blemore Borwne -- Government railroad and Anchorage in 1917 / Theodore Pilger -- Grubbing in the Matanuska Valley, 1915-1917 / M.D. Snodgrass -- Petroleum seepage near Anchorage, 1921 / Alfred Hulse Brooks -- New deal for agriculture, (1952) / Hugh A. Johnson -- Good Friday quake of 1964 / Saul Pett and Jules Loh -- Urban renewal on the last frontier, 1965-1969 / Morgan Sherwood -- Who owns Cook Inlet (1974) / Judges Koelsch, Carter and Wallace.