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Adventure and adventurers Alaska History 20th century Alaska History Alaska History 1867-1959 Fiction Alaska Social life and customs Dodson, Peggy Rouch 1893- Childhood and youth Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Fiction Harper, Walter 1892-1918 Indians of North America Alaska Stuck, Hudson 1863-1920Coyne, Amanda.
Summary: The story of America's last frontier and oil province from the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, to its crossroads today after Governor Sarah Palin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 COYBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 333.72 BRIHill, Kirkpatrick.
Summary: "It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HILMurphy, Claire Rudolf.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 MURTaliaferro, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.802 TALWaterman, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 WATSummary: Metlakatla is Alaska's last Native Indian reserve. For hundreds of years two distinct traditions have defined their community, fishing and basketball. Watch as two cousins lead their local High School team toward a shot at their first state championship in over 30 years. In the aftermath of an unimaginable tragedy, a basketball title has the ability to breathe new life back into this small town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALAFountain, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.2 FOUHall, Margaret
Summary: Describes Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, including a history of the region, the plants and animals that live there, and the activities that people participate in while visiting the park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.83 HALDean, Patrick
Summary: "In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size--occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface --and position as the Earth's northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world's deadliest mountains. Although its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 DEAContents: Introduction / Donald Snow -- "Up the inside passage-bridge to the past" / Jackie Canterbury, Cheri Brooks -- "Heart of the forest" / Richard Carstensen -- "The Tongass Rain Forest-an elusive sense of place and time" / Paul Alaback -- "Salmon in the trees" / Brad Matsen -- "First peoples of the Tongass: law and the traditional subsistence way of life" / David Avraham Voluck -- "Glacier Bay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.75 BOOBlake, Robert J.
Summary: In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLAIvey, Eowyn
Summary: In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Dagg, Carole Estby.
Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAGBlum, Howard.
Summary: Set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, this true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush describes a mystery surrounding the disappearance of gold bars stolen from the Treadmill Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Without clues, it appears the crime may never be solved, but Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton Agency sets out on a rugged cross-country odyssey to catch the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US BlumMoss, Helen
Summary: "It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities ––a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC MOSBreece, Hannah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 BREFord, Corey
Summary: A splendid account of the final voyage of explorer Vitus Bering and of the life of naturalist Georg Steller (1709-1746), who accompanied Bering on the 1741 crossing into the uncharted North Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.798 FORMiller, Debbie S
Summary: The story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome. Includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Sports MillerIvey, Eowyn.
Summary: "Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2012Williams, Mike
Summary: For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, MIKE WILSummary: Take off on a breathtaking journey. Takes you from bustling cities to ghost towns, and gives you an insider's look at the state's history, heritage and culture. Soar above the vast landscapes of the 49th state, go face-to-face with Mount McKinley and fly over the craggy crevasses of electric blue glaciers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Topics Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 OVEDodson, Peggy Rouch
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beistline Enterprises 1996