000811351 000__ 03514cam\a2200457\i\4500 000811351 001__ 811351 000811351 005__ 20210515142204.0 000811351 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000811351 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000811351 008__ 130118t20132013waua\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000811351 020__ $$z9780295992884 000811351 020__ $$a9780295804729$$q(electronic book) 000811351 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC4305937 000811351 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL4305937 000811351 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137302 000811351 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL810686 000811351 035__ $$a(OCoLC)913562653 000811351 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000811351 043__ $$an-us-ak 000811351 050_4 $$aF904.6$$b.M43 2013 000811351 0820_ $$a917.98/03$$223 000811351 1001_ $$aMeaux, Jean Morgan,$$eauthor. 000811351 24510 $$aIn pursuit of Alaska :$$ban anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909 /$$cJean Morgan Meaux. 000811351 264_1 $$aSeattle :$$bUniversity of Washington Press,$$c[2013] 000811351 264_4 $$c©2013 000811351 300__ $$a1 online resource (313 pages) :$$billustrations 000811351 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000811351 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000811351 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000811351 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index. 000811351 5050_ $$aPreface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth -- Note on Original Sources -- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska -- Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir -- A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock -- The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine -- The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis -- Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr. -- Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown -- Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard -- Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen -- Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr -- Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner -- Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich -- Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt -- One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie -- From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn -- Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert -- Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck -- Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold -- Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll -- Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk -- Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. Clark -- The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine -- The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell -- On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz -- Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey -- Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest -- Chronology of Alaska History through 1910. 000811351 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000811351 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000811351 650_0 $$aTravelers' writings. 000811351 650_0 $$aFrontier and pioneer life$$zAlaska$$vAnecdotes. 000811351 651_0 $$aAlaska$$xDescription and travel$$vAnecdotes. 000811351 651_0 $$aAlaska$$xHistory$$y1867-1959$$vAnecdotes. 000811351 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMeaux, Jean Morgan.$$tIn pursuit of Alaska : an anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909.$$dSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]$$z9780295992884 000811351 852__ $$bebk 000811351 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4305937$$zOnline Access 000811351 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:811351$$pGLOBAL_SET 000811351 980__ $$aEBOOK 000811351 980__ $$aBIB 000811351 982__ $$aEbook 000811351 983__ $$aOnline