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An edition of Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land (2003)

Alaska

Saga of a bold land

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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 the valuable resources 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.While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.

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HarperCollins
Language
English
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608

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History, Nonfiction, Travel, Alaska, description and travel, Alaska, history

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2007, HarperCollins
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
January 20, 2004, Harper Perennial
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2003, HarperCollins
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land--From Russian Fur Traders to the Gold Rush, Extraordinary Railroads, World War II, the Oil Boom, and the Fight Over ANWR
February 4, 2003, HarperCollins
in English
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Cover of: Alaska
Alaska: saga of a bold land
2003, HarperCollins
in English - 1st ed.
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Cover of: Alaska
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land--From Russian Fur Traders to the Gold Rush, Extraordinary Railroads, World War II, the Oil Boom, and the Fight Over ANWR
February 4, 2003, HarperCollins
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Table of Contents

Alaska; a sense of scale
Crossing the next frontier
Land before time (prehistory-1728)
Lifting the veil; an empire up for grabs (1728-1865)
Seward's folly; two cents an acre becomes a heck of a deal (1865-1897)
Go north; the rush is on (1897-1915)
Interlude; the calm between the storms (1915-1941)
Forgotten campaign; World War II in Alaska (1941-1945)
Postwar rumblings; statehood and earthquake (1945-1964)
North again; this time the gold is black (1964-1980)
Whose land? competing claims (1980-2001)
Alaska; a sense of scale.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [561]-572) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
979.8
Library of Congress
F904 .B75 2003

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Pagination
xiv, 608 p. :
Number of pages
608

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Open Library
OL23274678M
ISBN 10
0060503068
LCCN
2002027271
Library Thing
1157289
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1822532

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