1913 ALASKA Signed Travel KETCHIKAN HUNTING DAWSON FORTY MILE MINING CAMP Photos

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1913 ALASKA Signed Travel KETCHIKAN HUNTING DAWSON FORTY MILE MINING CAMP Photos:
$35.00

ALASKA AN EMPIRE IN THE MAKING, by John J. Underwood, 1913, Signed

Alaska - An Empire in the making, by John J. Underwood. Published by Dodd, Mead in 1913. Signed by Underwood on the endpaper with a dedication. The foreword notes that the information in the book was gathered during a residence of almost 14 years in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, much of it spent in fishing, hunting, exploring, andmining. Lengthy table of contents, some of which includes:

Leaving for Alaska
Magnificent scenery along Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca
In the Inland Passage and through southEastern Alaska waters
The first totem poles
Arriving at Ketchikan
Prince Rupert
Metlakatla and Wrangell
The Klondike strike
Alaskan glaciers
Treadwell Mine
Deserted Katalla
Cordova and glaciers
Valdez and its mines
Seward, Cooks Inlet and Kenai
Sitka
Buying from Indians
Ivory artificially aged
Basket weaving, Yukutat baskets, Attu baskets
Routes to Nome and interior
Unalaska, Cordova and Chitina, Skagway
From Caribou Crossing to Dawson
Forty-Mile the pioneer mining camp of the Upper Yukon
Hunting grounds - game and fur bearing animals, where to go and what to take
Much more

Well illustrated, with 58 photographs, including frontispiece showing ground sluicing on Daniels Creek near Nome, plus Cape St Elias, iceberg in Controller Bay, driving the golden spike in the Iditarod Railroad, higher types of Eskimos, cliff mine mill near Valez, Squaw and papoose, summer night at Cordova, map of Alaska, on Fairbanks trail, herd of walrus, Pete Larsen Kadiak hunter and guide, some hunting photos,Alaskan prospector, many more.

Pictorial hardcover, with attractive illustrations of totem poles and mountain range on the front cover, and white titles, white titles and similar smaller vignette on the spine. 440 pages. Front hinge cracked, holding firmly, cover nice conditions and contents clean.SIGNED.