Resources

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• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• Internet Archive
  • 1821 A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Bering Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage: undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue
  • 1881 Alaska, September 8 - October 20, 1881 by Edward Wm. Nelson. This field book documents Nelson's field research between Kotzebue Sound, Alaska and San Francisco, California between 8 September and 20 October 1881. During this time, Nelson was on general assignment to study the zoology of Alaska, as well as geology, meteorology, and ethnology.
  • 1887 Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1885
  • 1976 Woman's Who's Who of America, by John W. Leonard includes "PEARCE, Mildred Tenney Brown, Candle, Alaska. Former teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '01; m. Oct. 2, 1909, Edward Ernest Pearce. Taught in Brunot Hall, Spokane, Wash., and afterward in St. Mary's Hall, Knoxville, Ill., until marriage, when she went to Alaska." pages 630-631
  • 1990 The Nordenskièold Collection of Eskimo material culture from Port Clarence, Alaska
  • 1992 Historic Pottery of the Kotzebue Sound
  • 1993 The Last Light Breaking: living among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos by Nick Jans
  • 1996 Go Home River by James Magdanz, a juvenile fiction set inn 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair
  • 1996 A Place Beyond: finding home in Arctic Alaska by Nick Jans, 28 essays about living in arctic Alaska center around daily life in the Eskimo village of Ambler
  • 2003 Blue Hills: Alaska's Promised Land by Judy Ferguson
  • 2010 Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North, stories from 23 Rural Alaskans, available online only to patrons with print disabilities (as of Jun 2025)
• FindAGrave
• US Department of Veterans Affairs National Gravesite Locator
• US Department of the Interior - Indian Affairs - Tracing Ancestry
• Alaska Department of Health & Welfare Vital Records
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• The Arctic Sounder
• National Register of Historic Places - Northwest Arctic Borough Alaska
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Alaska Historical Society
• Alaska Genealogy

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