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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"; VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Former libary book. [18] 221 pp. Dark green boards with black text. Mylar covered dust cover. Text is clean and unmarked except for usual library treatments. Fold out map in back. Binding firm.
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Michael Craft (Maps) Very good in Very good jacket. xvi, 215, {7] pages and folding-map (with some color) at the rear. Maps. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and is in a plastic sleeve. The book is replete with absorbing insights, developed through original research and the author's lengthy visits to Alaska. For those who like to picture what they're reading about, there's an excellent detailed pullout map in the back of the book, as well as other maps for each chapter. This work has chapters on Sitka, Wrangell, Juneau, Haines, Ketchikan, Skagway and Petersburg. David Wharton was a lawyer, journalist, college professor, and a member of the United States Diplomatic and Consular service for twenty years. He turned his research and writing talent toward writing about Alaska after a Sierra Club expedition to the Yukon in 1964, which led to his work on the Alaska Gold Rush. Russian America was the Russian Empire's colonial possessions in North America from 1799 to 1867. It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California, and three forts in Hawaii, including Russian Fort Elizabeth. Russian Creole settlements were concentrated in Alaska, including the capital, New Archangel, which is now Sitka. After first landing in Alaska in 1741, Vitus Bering claimed the Alaskan country for the Russian Empire. Russia later confirmed its rule over the territory with the Ukase of 1799 which established the southern border of Russian America along the 55th parallel north. The decree also provided monopolistic privileges to the state-sponsored Russian-American Company and established the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. Russian Alaska initially prospered from the fur trade, but by the mid 19th century, overhunting and logistical challenges led to its gradual decline. With most settlements abandoned by the 1860s, Russia sold its last remaining possessions to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million. In 1790 Alexander Andreyevich Baranov was hired to manage the Russian Alaskan fur-enterprise. Baranov moved the colony to the northeast end of Kodiak Island, where timber was available. The site later developed as what is now the city of Kodiak. Russian colonists took Koniag wives and started families whose surnames continue today, such as Panamaroff, Petrikoff, and Kvasnikoff. In 1795 Baranov, concerned by the sight of non-Russian Europeans trading with the natives in southeast Alaska, established Mikhailovsk six miles north of present-day Sitka. He bought the land from the Tlingit, but in 1802, while Baranov was away, Tlingit from a neighboring settlement attacked and destroyed Mikhailovsk. Baranov returned with a Russian warship and razed the Tlingit village. He built the settlement of New Archangel on the ruins of Mikhailovsk. It became the capital of Russian America-and later the city of Sitka. By 1804, Baranov, manager of the Russian-American Company, had consolidated the company's hold on fur trade activities in the Americas following his suppression of the Tlingit clan at the Battle of Sitka. The Russians never fully colonized Alaska. For the most part, they clung to the coast and shunned the interior. From 1812 to 1841, the Russians operated Fort Ross, California. From 1814 to 1817, Russian Fort Elizabeth was operating in the Kingdom of Hawaii. By the 1830s, the Russian monopoly on trade was weakening.
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