Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land--From Russian Fur Traders to the Gold Rush, Extraordinary Railroads, World War II, the Oil Boom, and the Fight Over ANWR PDF
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Alaska Saga of a Bold Land Walter R. Borneman For my son, Russ, who has traveled this land with me and who has his own frontiers yet to cross. Contents MAP PROLOGUE Alaska—a Sense of Scale INTRODUCTION Crossing the Next Frontier BOOK ONE The Land before Time (Prehistory–1728) Mountains, Glaciers, and Innumerable Rivers First Steps, Continuing Traditions BOOK TWO Lifting the Veil: An Empire Up for Grabs (1728–1865) The Czar Looks East Spanish Entradas Cook and Vancouver Port des Français Lord of Alaska God Is in His Heaven Limitations of Empire BOOK THREE Seward’s Folly: Two Cents an Acre Becomes a Heck of a Deal (1865–1897) Last Guns of the Civil War The Telegraph Survey and Mr. Dall Two Cents an Acre Boston Men in the Pribilofs John Muir Visits Glacier Bay Sheldon Jackson’s Missionary Zeal Untangling the Rivers The Lewis and Clark of Alaska Juneau, or Whatever Its Name Is One for the Duke BOOK FOUR Go North: The Rush Is On (1897–1915) Fortymile, Circle, and the Sourdoughs of Rabbit Creek The Trails of ’98 Two Towns and a Railroad One Man’s Summer Vacation Last Stops of the Mining Frontier Crest of the Continent Copper, Kennecott, and One Heck of a Railroad Preserving the Bounty The Day the Sky Turned Black BOOK FIVE Interlude: The Calm between the Storms (1915–1941) Alaska’s Railroad The First Iditarod Conflicting Views, Continuing Battles Salmon on the Run Thrill ’em, Spill ’em, but Never Kill ’em Knocking around the Gates Farmers in the Matanuska Never the Same Again BOOK SIX The Forgotten Campaign: World War II in Alaska (1941–1945) The Rush to Get There The Darkest Chapter No Place to Fight a War Victory BOOK SEVEN Postwar Rumblings: Statehood and Earthquake (1945–1964) Offspring of Victory Logging the Forests Cold War Standoff The Forty-ninth Star Oil Boom on the Kenai A New Meaning of Wilderness Earthquake! BOOK EIGHT North Again: This Time the Gold Is Black (1964–1980) Black Gold The Blue Canoes The Long, Long Road to ANCSA Working on the Pipeline A Capital Move The Permanent Fund BOOK NINE Whose Land? Competing Claims (1980–2001) d-2 Becomes ANILCA The Big One Toward a New Economy ANWR—2001 Postscript to an Era, Prologue to the Next EPILOGUE Alaska—a Sense of Scale Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Searchable Terms About the Author Praise Other Books By Walter R. Borneman Credits Copyright About the Publisher Map
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