In pursuit of Alaska : an anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909 /
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University of Washington Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth
- Note on Original Sources
- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska
- Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir
- A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock
- The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine
- The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis
- Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr.
- Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown
- Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard
- Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen
- Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr
- Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner
- Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich
- Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt
- One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie
- From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn
- Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert
- Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck
- Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold
- Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll
- Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk
- Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock
- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester
- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr
- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell
- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan
- Playing for Stakes / M. Clark
- The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine
- The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell
- On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz
- Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey
- Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest
- Chronology of Alaska History through 1910.