Alaska: Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan ArchipelagoD. Lothrop, 1885 - 333 strani Author's letters to various newspapers on her two summer cruises in 1883-84 assembled and amplified by reference to published information to form an informative tourist guide to the region. |
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... Russia for its possessions in North America . This fact is unique in the history of our purchased territories , and justifies Secretary Seward's efforts in acquiring it . The neglect of Congress to provide any form of civil government ...
... Russia for its possessions in North America . This fact is unique in the history of our purchased territories , and justifies Secretary Seward's efforts in acquiring it . The neglect of Congress to provide any form of civil government ...
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... Russian days , and a character on the coast . He was a Slav , and gifted with all the cunning of that race , and after the transfer of the country to the United States , he disturbed the serenity of the customs officials by the steady ...
... Russian days , and a character on the coast . He was a Slav , and gifted with all the cunning of that race , and after the transfer of the country to the United States , he disturbed the serenity of the customs officials by the steady ...
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... voyagers ' sauvage , keeps his valuables stored in heavy cedar chests , or gaudy red trunks studded with brass nails ; the latter costly prizes with which the Russian traders used to tempt them . THE SITKAN ARCHIPELAGO . 37.
... voyagers ' sauvage , keeps his valuables stored in heavy cedar chests , or gaudy red trunks studded with brass nails ; the latter costly prizes with which the Russian traders used to tempt them . THE SITKAN ARCHIPELAGO . 37.
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Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. with which the Russian traders used to tempt them . At the first sound of the steamer's paddle - wheels , and they can be heard for miles in these fiords , the Indians ...
Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. with which the Russian traders used to tempt them . At the first sound of the steamer's paddle - wheels , and they can be heard for miles in these fiords , the Indians ...
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... Russian America and chief director of the fur company , who sent the Captain - Lieut . Dionysius Feodorovich Zarembo down from Sitka to erect a stockade post on the small tongue of land now occu- pied by the homes , graves , and totem ...
... Russian America and chief director of the fur company , who sent the Captain - Lieut . Dionysius Feodorovich Zarembo down from Sitka to erect a stockade post on the small tongue of land now occu- pied by the homes , graves , and totem ...
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Alaska Alaska Commercial Company anchor archipelago Baranoff beach beautiful blankets boats bracelets British Columbia cannery canoes Captain carved cedar channel Chatham Strait chief Chilkat Chilkat River Chilkoot Inlet civil coal coast command cruise curios Davidson glacier deck district dollars eagle feet fish fishery forest Fort Wrangell front fur company gold governor green ground Haidas harbor head Hooniah houses Howkan Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Company hundred Idaho Indians inlet Juneau Kaigahnee Kasa-an Kloh-Kutz Kootznahoo land Lynn Canal Metlakatlah miles miners mines morning mountain MUIR GLACIER natives numbers officers Pacific picturesque rancherie River Russian salmon San Francisco sealskins sent Seward ship ship's shore side silver Sitka Siwash skins spoons steamer Stikine Stikine River Straits summer Taku Territory Thlinkets thousand tide totem poles town trade treaty tribes trip Tyee United village wharf Wrangell Yukon