Life on the Yukon, 1865-1867
Title | Life on the Yukon, 1865-1867 PDF eBook |
Author | George Russell Adams |
Publisher | Alaska Limestone Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780091964283 |
Contains: George R. Adams: autobiographical sketch, p.1-117; George R. Adams: diary, 1865-1867, p.119-213. The diary contains a day to day account of Adams' experiences in the Yukon River area as part of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition.
Life in the Yukon
Title | Life in the Yukon PDF eBook |
Author | George R. Adams |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982 |
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Life on the Yukon 1865-1967
Title | Life on the Yukon 1865-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | George Russell Adams |
Publisher | Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
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Yukon
Title | Yukon PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Webb |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780774804417 |
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867
Title | Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Black |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1889963046 |
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."
Yukon
Title | Yukon PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Webb |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803297456 |
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls "the technological frontier." Colorful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land "remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions." ø
Social Life in Northwest Alaska
Title | Social Life in Northwest Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest S. Burch |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN | 1889963925 |
This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.