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1) The Alaskans
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Series
Description
A pictorial history of Alaska, from its purchase by the United States in 1867 through 1912, chronicling the exploration of the wilderness, the discovery of gold, and the development of the whaling, fishing, and fur industries.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
This is a gripping narrative about life & death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley. This first-person narrative explores the psychology of climbers who attempt to scale the nation's highest mountain.Two hundred and sixteen miles south of the Arctic circle is Denali, otherwise known as Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, rising more than twenty thousand feet into the Alaskan sky. In this exhilarating account, Jonathan Waterman paints a startlingly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March.
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Looking for Alaska" is Jenkins' account of a year-long odyssey in America's last wilderness. From fishing expedition with some of Alaska's Native leaders to an ocean-kayaking trip in the glacier-ridden waters off the northwestern coast, Jenkins delivers a memorable diary of discovery--both of this place that captures maginations, and of himself, all over again.
14) Ghost towns
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the ghost towns scattered across America, discussing their decline and current status.
15) Gold rush women
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Port Chatham, Alaska was once a busy fishing village. By 1950, every single resident had left the town, leaving it abandoned. Over the years, legends told that the residents fled because they were being terrorized by a Bigfoot-like creature the local natives called Nantiinaq. Stories of mutilated bodies, missing hunters and strange, otherworldly creatures have long been associated with Port Chatham. Retired police investigator, Larry Baxter, delves...
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When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling...
19) Bravest dog ever
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.
20) Building Alaska
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"From the Emmy Award® winning and Oscar® nominated producers of the four-part PBS series Great Projects: The Building of America, now comes Building Alaska, a century-long journey with the dedicated and visionary men and women who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote and forbidding part of the United States. This feature-length documentary tells the stories of the great railroads and highways of the late 19th and...
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