This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar ...fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions.
Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory, and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol, and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energized the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region's history.
From the Gold Rush to Tlingit potlatches to the Alaska Reindeer Project, It Happened in Alaska offers a unique look at intriguing icons and episodes from the history of the Last Frontier. In an ...easy-to-read style that's entertaining and informative, Alaska resident Diane Olthius recounts some of her state's most captivating moments.
The latest volume in the LTER series, this book presents the results and finding of the Long-Term Ecological Research site in the Alaskan Arctic, discussing Arctic ecology from a variety of ...perspectives and disciplines.
"People break my heart. Every single one of them does." In settings
that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the
stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical road map
to ...the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In "Blue Ticket," a
stranger finds solace in a Juneau homeless encampment. Old friends
argue over the pleasures and perils of small-town life in "A
Beginner's Guide to Leaving Your Hometown," and in "Every Island
Longs for the Continent," a young family falls apart after moving
to Kodiak. In these thirteen stories, Zach Falcon explores the
burdens of familiarity and the pains of estrangement through
characters struggling with their place in the world.
Building Fires in the Snow Martha Amore, Lucian Childs / Martha Amore, Lucian Childs
09/2016, Letnik:
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Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the
state's population consists of people with many different
backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a
window into ...these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a
brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the
panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban
adventures of a family-shopping, going out, working-to intimate
encounters with Alaska's breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of
great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building
Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes
and reveals a side of Alaska that's been little seen until now.
The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established
successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the
settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the
Russian-America ...Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst
of all, they were terrible role models for the Natives, whom the
empire saw as in desperate need of moral enlightenment. The
empire's solution? Send in women. In 1829, the Company decreed that
any governor appointed after that date had to have a wife, in the
hopes that these more pious women would serve as glowing examples
of domesticity and bring charm to a brutish territory. Elisabeth
von Wrangell, Margaretha Etholén, and Anna Furuhjelm were three of
eight governors' wives who took up this domestic mantle.
Married to the Empire tells their stories using their own
words and though extraordinary research by Susanna Rabow-Edling.
All three were young and newly wed when they left Russia for the
furthest outpost of the empire, and all three went through personal
and cultural struggles as they worked to adjust to life in the
colony. Their trials offer a little-heard female history of Russian
Alaska, while illuminating the issues that arose while trying to
reconcile expectations of womanhood with the realities of frontier
life.
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Pan for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at ...lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Last Frontier.
After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose
and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again
in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land ...and
breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska
within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development
of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World
War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the
industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and
later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history
to life by capturing the remarkable stories of the men and women
who made fur their livelihood. "For more than 200 years 'soft gold'
brought many people to Alaska. Fur farming was Alaska's
third-largest industry in the 1920s, and Sarah Isto writes of the
many efforts, successes, and ultimately of the fur farming
industry's failure. This well-researched history contextualizes
current fox elimination projects on Alaska islands and explains the
abandoned pens one stumbles across. This is a story that has long
needed to be written."-Joan M. Antonson, Alaska State Historian
The teacher and the superintendent Boulter, George E., II; Boulter, George E; Green, Alice
The teacher and the superintendent,
2015, 2015, 2015-12-03
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From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and ...schools along the Yukon River were George E. Boulter and Alice Green, his future wife. Boulter, a Londoner originally drawn to the Klondike, had begun teaching in 1905 and by 1910 had been promoted to superintendent of schools for the Upper Yukon District. In 1907, Green left a comfortable family life in New Orleans to answer the “call to serve” in the Episcopal mission boarding schools for Native children at Anvik and Nenana, where she occupied the position of government teacher. As school superintendent, Boulter wrote frequently to his superiors in Seattle and Washington, DC, to discuss numerous administrative matters and to report on problems and conditions overall. From 1906 to 1918, Green kept a personal journal—hitherto in private possession—in which she reflected on her professional duties and her domestic life in Alaska. Collected in The Teacher and the Superintendent are Boulter’s letters and Green’s diary. Together, their vivid, first- hand impressions bespeak the earnest but paternalistic beliefs of those who lived and worked in immensely isolated regions, seeking to bring Christianity and “civilized” values to the Native children in their care. Beyond shedding private light on the missionary spirit, however, Boulter and Green have also left us an invaluable account of the daily conflicts that occurred between church and government and of the many injustices suffered by the Native population in the face of the misguided efforts of both institutions.
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