Across Widest America, Newfoundland to Alaska
Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward James 1860-1927 Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360076850 |
Author | : Edward J. Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230003368 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of 1901, and from the beginning, success crowned the efforts of the miners. Results have shown that there is gold in all the creeks of Seward Peninsula. The beds of ancient rivers--and there are many such up there---filled with shifting gravel and erosions from the hillsides, are being thoroughly inspected, and usually turn out very rich, every hillside hitherto touched with the pick and shovel yielding gold dust in more or less paying quantities. Notwithstanding the limited number of the miners, and the shortness of the working season, less than five months, five million dollars in gold-dust have been washed out of the Seward Peninsula every _year since the discovery. There is, however, one drawback to placer mining in that country. Individual miners, who have so far had the Peninsula to themselves, have learned by experience that single-handed they cannot fight against the climate and the short season. Four months out of twelve is the limit of a miner's activity; the other eight are spent in forced idleness. Capital, therefore, is needed to develop the claims on a large scale, and to work them out quickly. Just as soon as capitalists awake to the possibilities of that wonderful country, a period of tremendous activity and corresponding prosperity will surely set in. And still it is the solitary miner, with his pan and shovel, his tent and outfit, who prowls about the hills and discovers the gold. One of the symptoms of the gold fever is the desire to go prospecting for the metal, the farther away the better. Since 1900, the whole of Seward Peninsula has been tramped over a dozen times from Norton Bay to Kotzebue Sound. There are many streams draining it northward into the Arctic, notably the Kougarok, Imnachuk, and Keewalik. The...
Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780665730306 |
Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Edward James Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Morgan Meaux |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295804726 |
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
Author | : James Wickersham |
Publisher | : Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Contains the titles of all histories, travels, voyages, newspapers, periodicals, public documents, etc., printed in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc., relating to, descriptive of, or published in Russian America or Alaska, from 1724 to and including 1924.