In Pursuit of Alaska: An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
This collection of Alaskan adventures begins with a newspaper article written by John Muir during his first visit to Alaska in 1879, when the sole U.S. government representative in all the territory's 586,412 square miles was a lone customs official in Sitka. It closes with accounts of the gold rush and the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Jean Meaux has gathered a superb collection of articles and stories that captivated American readers when they were first published and that will continue to entertain us today. The authors range from Charles Hallock (the founder of Forest and Stream, a precursor of Field and Stream) to New York society woman Mary Hitchcock, who traveled with china, silver, and a 2,800 square foot tent. After explorer Henry Allen wore out his boots, he marched barefoot as he continued mapping the Tanana River, and Episcopal Archdeacon Hudson Stuck mushed by dog sled in Arctic winters across a territory encompassing 250,000 miles of the northern interior.
Although the United States acquired Alaska in 1867, it took more than a decade for American writers and explorers to focus attention on a territory so removed from their ordinary lives. These writers-adventurers, tourists, and gold seekers-would help define the nation's perception of Alaska and would contribute to an image of the state that persists today. This collection unearths early writings that offer a broad view of American encounters with Alaska accompanied by Meaux's lively and concise introductions. The present-day adventurer will find much to inspire exploration, while students of the American West can gain new access to this valuable trove of pre-Gold Rush Alaska archives.
For more information go to: http://www.inpursuitofalaska.com
Related to In Pursuit of Alaska
Related ebooks
Travels in Alaska Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Years in the Klondike Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReport of an Expedition: Report of an Expedition to Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers In The Territory of Alaska Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKodiak Tales: Stories of Adventure on Alaska's Emerald Isle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeaver River Country: An Adirondack History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrails: Living In The Alaska Wilderness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pickwick Papers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarriet Jacobs in New Bedford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe WPA Guide to North Dakota: The Northern Prairie State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPecos Pueblo People Through the Ages: Stories of Time and Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlaska on the Go: Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Father of Glacier National Park: Discoveries and Explorations in His Own Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWicked Omaha Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales: Expert Fly Anglers Share Stories from the Sea and Stream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prairie Traveller, a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFisherman's Fall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The WPA Guide to Iowa: The Hawkeye State Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ghost Towns of the Southwest: Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps & Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBerlandier: A French Naturalist on the Texas Frontier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jim Bridger - Mountain Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKlondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHidden History of Everglades City and Points Nearby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A River Trilogy: A Fly-Fishing Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbsaraka, Home of the Crows: A Military Wife's Journal Retelling Life on the Plains and Red Cloud's War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving in Chile ( Pros and Cons) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fly Fishing the Sam: A Guidebook to Exploring the Creeks, Rivers, and Bayous of the Sam Houston National Forest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Men Who Stare at Goats Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for In Pursuit of Alaska
2 ratings0 reviews