Alaska : saga of a bold land / Walter R. Borneman.

Borneman, Walter R., 1952-(Author).

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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.

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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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