This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... the ice out. Fifteen years passed before I concluded to investigate Alaska personally. Then I decided to begin at the source of the Yukon, as I might thus be able to get down the river before it froze up and bring home photographs and a description of the country. So I started in on Alaska Territory from Eagle, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... the ice out. Fifteen years passed before I concluded to investigate Alaska personally. Then I decided to begin at the source of the Yukon, as I might thus be able to get down the river before it froze up and bring home photographs and a description of the country. So I started in on Alaska Territory from Eagle, the northeastern port of entry, which is 1,700 miles from the mouth of the Yukon. Except for a customhouse and wireless station, and the caretaker of a million-dollar abandoned fort, Eagle would not be on the map. It is on the boundary line between Canada and Alaska. The United States Government finished the million-dollar fort in 1900 and occupied it only one year. This is an example of the way the Government has squandered money in Alaska, and will, while it continues to be extravagantly and inefficiently represented in this distant Territory. Had the million dollars been spent on the natural transportation routes--the rivers--it would have been of practical benefit to miner and settler. The next point of importance one reaches in descending the Yukon River is Fort Yukon, northwest 300 miles from Eagle. This town is within the Arctic Circle, being 67 degrees north latitude. For one month of the year the sun never sets. I took splendid photographs at midnight. Fort Yukon is a very old trading point, and was once in the hands of the British Hudson Bay Company. At one time it almost caused a war between Russia and Great Britain. Historically, and in many other respects, Fort Yukon was the most interesting point, to me, in Alaska. The Wells Fargo Express Company has an office there; in fact, this company does all the express business A BIG MOOSE HEAD AT MINER S CABIN, FORT YUKON. of Alaska, as well as operating 77,000 miles of railway in the United St...
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Add this copy of Alaska and the Panama Canal: Illustrated to cart. $20.00, fair condition, Sold by Ed's Editions, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Columbia, SC, UNITED STATES, published 1914 by Rand McNally & Company.
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Fair. 1914 edition. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards are heavily silverfished, with rubbed edges and frayed corners. Binding is good. Outer pages have some smudges. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, with toning. 163 pages. LO.
Add this copy of Alaska and the Panama Canal to cart. $21.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1914 by Rand McNally & Company.
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Very good+ Gilt stamped green cloth boards, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing to boards, binding tight, previous owner's signature and stamp to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked.
Add this copy of Alaska and the Panama Canal to cart. $52.00, very good condition, Sold by General Eclectic Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Gloucester, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1914 by Rand McNally & Company.
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