Author: Andrew S. Higgs
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Category : Fish Creek (North Slope Borough, Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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History of Mining on Upper Fish Creek, Fairbanks, Alaska
Author: Andrew S. Higgs
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Category : Fish Creek (North Slope Borough, Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Publisher:
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Category : Fish Creek (North Slope Borough, Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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The Quest for Gold
Author: Becky M. Saleeby
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Vuka
Author: Vladimir Radovic
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504979648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Vukas elopement in 1928 caused a major scandal in a small Adriatic port. Wise Mike, a mature sourdough, organized her voluntary kidnapping and took her on a venturesome journey to Alaska, where he had struck gold. In defying local customs and in breaking a taboo, she chose personal happiness over family constraints. She fell in love with the adventurer, endured frigid nights and freezing winds, and fully apprehended the majestic beauty of a distant frontier. The text traces the life story of this Southern Slav woman without formal education but far ahead of her time. Independent and wealthy, she was most at ease at her Fairbanks Creek, in the midst of astonishing nature and at peace with the essential. There is an endowment in her name at a university in California entitled the Power of Good.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504979648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Vukas elopement in 1928 caused a major scandal in a small Adriatic port. Wise Mike, a mature sourdough, organized her voluntary kidnapping and took her on a venturesome journey to Alaska, where he had struck gold. In defying local customs and in breaking a taboo, she chose personal happiness over family constraints. She fell in love with the adventurer, endured frigid nights and freezing winds, and fully apprehended the majestic beauty of a distant frontier. The text traces the life story of this Southern Slav woman without formal education but far ahead of her time. Independent and wealthy, she was most at ease at her Fairbanks Creek, in the midst of astonishing nature and at peace with the essential. There is an endowment in her name at a university in California entitled the Power of Good.
Alaska History
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Mineral Resources of Alaska, 1936
Author: Philip Sidney Smith
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Mining West
Author: Richard E. Lingenfelter
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Eldorado!
Author: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080321099X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funneled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behavior. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080321099X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funneled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behavior. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.
Crooked Past
Author: Terrence Cole
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Early history of the gold rush, development of a mining camp and growth of a town at Fairbanks, Alaska, including a biography of the founder, E.T. Barnette.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Early history of the gold rush, development of a mining camp and growth of a town at Fairbanks, Alaska, including a biography of the founder, E.T. Barnette.
Mining History of the Birch Creek and Upper Lemhi Valleys
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Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Chatham Creek Mines, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska
Author: Chatham Creek Mines, Inc
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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