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Alaska : saga of a bold land / Walter R. Borneman.
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how these resource should be used. Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom.
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- ISBN: 0060503076
- ISBN: 9780060503079
- Physical Description: xx, 608 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Perennial, 2004, ©2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-572) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue Alaska -- a sense of scale -- Introduction Crossing the next frontier -- Book one The land before time (prehistory-1728) -- Book two Lifting the veil: an empire up for grabs (1728-1865) -- Book three Seward's folly: two cents an acre becomes a heck of a deal (1865-1897) -- Book four Go north: the rush is on (1897-1915) -- Book five Interlude: the calm between the storms (1915-1941) -- Book six The forgotten campaign: World War II in Alaska (1941-1945) -- Book seven Postwar rumblings: statehood and earthquake (1945-1964) -- Book eight North again: this time the gold is black (1964-1980) -- Book nine Whose land? competing claims (1980-2001) -- Epilouge Alaska -- a sense of scale. |
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| Subject: | Alaska > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | F 904 .B67 2004 | 30775305537533 | General Collection | Available | - |
Alaska : Saga of a Bold Land
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Table of Contents
Alaska : Saga of a Bold Land
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | p. xvii | |
| Introduction: Crossing the Next Frontier | p. xix | |
| Book 1 | The Land before Time (Prehistory--1728) | |
| Mountains, Glaciers, and Innumerable Rivers | p. 4 | |
| First Steps, Continuing Traditions | p. 18 | |
| Book 2 | Lifting the Veil: An Empire Up for Grabs (1728-1865) | |
| The Czar Looks East | p. 34 | |
| Spanish Entradas | p. 42 | |
| Cook and Vancouver | p. 49 | |
| Port des Francais | p. 54 | |
| Lord of Alaska | p. 60 | |
| God Is in His Heaven | p. 74 | |
| Limitations of Empire | p. 79 | |
| Book 3 | Seward's Folly: Two Cents an Acre Becomes a Heck of a Deal (1865-1897) | |
| Last Guns of the Civil War | p. 94 | |
| The Telegraph Survey and Mr. Dall | p. 101 | |
| Two Cents an Acre | p. 106 | |
| Boston Men in the Pribilofs | p. 113 | |
| John Muir Visits Glacier Bay | p. 120 | |
| Sheldon Jackson's Missionary Zeal | p. 127 | |
| Untangling the Rivers | p. 133 | |
| The Lewis and Clark of Alaska | p. 138 | |
| Juneau, or Whatever Its Name Is | p. 145 | |
| One for the Duke | p. 153 | |
| Book 4 | Go North: The Rush Is On (1897-1915) | |
| Fortymile, Circle, and the Sourdoughs of Rabbit Creek | p. 168 | |
| The Trails of '98 | p. 176 | |
| Two Towns and a Railroad | p. 189 | |
| One Man's Summer Vacation | p. 200 | |
| Last Stops of the Mining Frontier | p. 206 | |
| Crest of the Continent | p. 220 | |
| Copper, Kennecott, and One Heck of a Railroad | p. 230 | |
| Preserving the Bounty | p. 238 | |
| The Day the Sky Turned Black | p. 246 | |
| Book 5 | Interlude: The Calm between the Storms (1915-1941) | |
| Alaska's Railroad | p. 258 | |
| The First Iditarod | p. 271 | |
| Conflicting Views, Continuing Battles | p. 278 | |
| Salmon on the Run | p. 286 | |
| Thrill 'em, Spill 'em, but Never Kill 'em | p. 292 | |
| Knocking around the Gates | p. 303 | |
| Farmers in the Matanuska | p. 311 | |
| Never the Same Again | p. 317 | |
| Book 6 | The Forgotten Campaign: World War II in Alaska (1941-1945) | |
| The Rush to Get There | p. 332 | |
| The Darkest Chapter | p. 344 | |
| No Place to Fight a War | p. 349 | |
| Victory | p. 363 | |
| Book 7 | Postwar Rumblings: Statehood and Earthquake (1945-1964) | |
| Offspring of Victory | p. 376 | |
| Logging the Forests | p. 381 | |
| Cold War Standoff | p. 387 | |
| The Forty-ninth Star | p. 395 | |
| Oil Boom on the Kenai | p. 404 | |
| A New Meaning of Wilderness | p. 413 | |
| Earthquake! | p. 426 | |
| Book 8 | North Again: This Time the Gold Is Black (1964-1980) | |
| Black Gold | p. 441 | |
| The Blue Canoes | p. 453 | |
| The Long, Long Road to ANCSA | p. 458 | |
| Working on the Pipeline | p. 473 | |
| A Capital Move | p. 487 | |
| The Permanent Fund | p. 492 | |
| Book 9 | Whose Land? Competing Claims (1980-2001) | |
| d-2 Becomes ANILCA | p. 502 | |
| The Big One | p. 511 | |
| Toward a New Economy | p. 522 | |
| ANWR--2001 | p. 530 | |
| Postscript to an Era, Prologue to the Next | p. 537 | |
| Epilogue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | p. 539 | |
| Notes | p. 541 | |
| Bibliography | p. 561 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 573 | |
| Index | p. 577 |
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