"North to the Future"
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B.C. Fact Book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About British Columbia |
Zuehlke, Mark. (North Vancouver, BC: Whitecap Books, 1995), 253 p., paper, ISBN 1551102773, 351 Lynn Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7J 2C4. Alphabetical listing of subjects that include factual information about the province's landscape, wildlife, peoples, history, culture, and economic and social conditions. cn94-910960-6. |
| Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Rookie Musher's Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome | Bowers, Don. (Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1998), 395 pp., paperback, ISBN1888125241, P.O. Box 221974, Anchorage, AK 99522-1974. With no mushing experience and little money, the author started from scratch to put together a dog team and run the Iditarod. |
| Backdoor to the Yukon | Lahser, Otto. , edited by Carl Lahser (San Antonio: Pretense Press, 1996), 79 pp., paper, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. A gold rush diary from 1898-99, edited and annotated by the author's nephew. This gold rush prospector took one of the all-Canada routes to the Yukon. |
| Backwoods Broadway: Theatre in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1905-1997 | Parr, Charles H. ([Fairbanks]: Inkworks, c2000), 285 pp., cloth, order from Karen Parr, 909 John Kalinas Road, Fairbanks, AK 99712. History of the performing arts in Fairbanks includes a listing of all known theatre productions. |
| Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo | Lee, Molly. (Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the University of Alaska Museum, 1998 1983), 82 pp., paperback, ISBN0295976853, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. Completely redesigned edition of the 1983 work, the first book on this unusual basket form, covering history, characteristics, and construction, as well as profiling the creators. New forward, preface, and introduction. |
| Banking On Alaska: the Story of the National Bank of Alaska-Volume I | Rasmuson, Elmer E., and Terrence Dole., by Terrence Cole and Elmer E. Rasmuson, A History of NBA; Volume II, by Elmer E. Rasmuson, Elmer's Memoirs: Anecdotes and Vignettes of My 90 Years (Anchorage: National Bank of Alaska, 2000), volume I, 523 pp., volume II, 403 pp., cloth. Now available from University of Alaska Press, paper, two-volume set, vol.1: ISBN 1880063275 and vol.2: ISBN 1889963283. Telling the story of Alaska's early banking history and the consolidation that resulted in Alaska's largest bank, volume one is a corporate history. Volume two tells the story of the Rasmuson family's long connections to Alaska and includes the texts of many speeches, and a biographical section featuring over 60 prominent individuals and businesses. |
| Baranof Island's Eastern Shore: "The Waterfall Coast" | DeArmond, Robert N. and Patricia Roppel. (Sitka: Arrowhead Press, 1997), 63 pp., paper, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. A guide to the history of part of a large island in southeast Alaska, illustrated with maps, charts, and historical photographs. |
| Barrett Willoughby, Alaska's Forgotten Lady | Ferrell, Nancy Warren. / Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 1994. 184p. Biography of noted Alaskan fiction writer of the 1920s through 1940s, by Juneau author. ISBN 09120067765. LC94-34537. |
| Batza Te'na: Trail to Obsidian: Archaeology at an Alaskan Obsidian Source | Clark, Donald W., and A. McFadyen Clark. / Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1993. 315p. Mercury Series, Archaeological Survey, Paper 147: reports of findings from 4 years of extensive archaeological surveys and excavations at Alaska's most important source of obsidian, including tool making sites, campsites, and traces of trading networks throughout Alaska and Northwestern Canada. Highly technical. ISBN066014016. |
| Beachlines: A Pocket History of Nome, Alaska | Mendenhall, Nancy M. (Nome: George Sabo, 1997),96 pp., comb-bound, order from Nancy Mendenhall, Box 1141, Nome, AK 99762. wln97-318162. Brief overview of Nome and its history, a "crossroads of diverse ideas, cultures, and personalities." |
| Bear Man of Admiralty Island: A Biography of Allen E. Hasselborg | Howe, John R. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1996), 250 pp., cloth, ISBN 0912006803, ISBN 0912006811, PO Box 756240, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6240. LC96-012930. Life story of a bear hunting hermit turned conservationist. |
| Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviator | Glines, Carroll V. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999) 310 pp., cloth, ISBN 1560989068, 1-800-782-4612. He set polar flight records, organized a series of daring wartime air operations, and became a leader in Arctic aviation. But despite these achievements, Norwegian-American aviator Bernt Balchen saw his public image and military career repeatedly undermined by his one-time mentor, the famous and influential Admiral Richard Byrd. |
| Best of Alaska Geographic: Our First 100 Issues | Rennick, Penny, editor. Volume 27, Number 1 of Alaska Geographic (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 2000), 144 pp., paper, ISBN 1566610494, P.O. Box 93370, Anchorage, AK 99509-3370. Illustrated excerpts from the first 26 years of this quarterly publication. |
| Between Two Rivers: the Growth of Chugiak-Eagle River, Alaska | Cochrane, Marjorie. , updated edition (Anchorage: Alaska State Historical Commission, 1997 1983), 192 pp., paperback, ISBN0943712122, 3601 C Street, Suite 1278, Anchorage, AK 99503-5921. The fiftieth anniversary of its founding serves as the occasion for the revision and reissue of this long out-of-print 1982 work, with an added update, "The Eagles Return to Yukla Valley." |
| Beyond Description: Work by Three Alaskan Artists: Carol Crump Bryner, Todd Sherman, Kenneth DeRoux | Michaels, M. B. . (Clear, AK: Sky High Publishing, 1995), 32 p., P.O. Box 40045, Clear, AK 99704. Three Alaska artists discuss their work and outlook on art. wln96-130895. |
| Beyond the Killing Tree: Journey of Discovery | Reynolds, Stephen. (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1995), 191 p., cloth, ISBN 0945397429 (Box 60529, Fairbanks, AK 99706, dist. By Graphic Arts Center Publishing, PO Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306). LC 95-22083. A game warden for 26 years, the author relates stories of his work in New Mexico and Alaska and reflects on man's place in the natural world. |
| Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868 | Lada-Mocarski, Valerian. (Mansfield Centre, CT: Maurizio Martino Fine Books, 1998), 567 pp., cloth, P.O. Box 373, Mansfield Centre, CT 06250. A facsimile reprint of the classic 1969 work devoted to first editions of books on Alaska before the end of the Russian period (limited to 200 copies). |
| Bibliography of Literature on Alaska Native History from 1741-1867 | Price, Robert E. (Juneau: Alaska-Siberia Research Center, 1995), 53 p., paper, P.O. Box 34871, Juneau, AK 99803. Annotated list of primary and secondary source material, arranged by original language of publication. wln95-71091. |
| Bill and Lily: Two Alaskans | Stolt, William, and Lilian Stolt. (Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1997), 272 pp., cloth, ISBN 1888125144. wln97-281702. Life stories of Anchorage residents who have been here since the founding of the town in 1915. |
| Bill Reid | Shadbolt, Doris. (Vancouver, B.C. ; Seattle, Wash.: Douglas & McIntyre; University of Washington Press, 1998) 216 pp., cloth, ISBN 0295977507, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle WA 98145-5096. Updates the 1986 edition to include the last 12 years of Northwest Coast artist Bill Reid's amazingly productive life, which ended with his ceremonial Haida burial in 1998. |
| Biographies of Alaska- Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950 | Ferrell, Ed. , Volume 2 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996), 371 p., paper,(1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Suite 301, Bowie, MD 20716). LC95-105172. A second volume of four hundred biographies with source notes, most from the period 1880-1910, collected by a longtime resident of Juneau. |
| Biographies of Alaska-Yukon pioneers, 1850 -1950 | Ferrell, Ed, comp. and ed. / Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994. Alphabetically arranged, this uses newspapers and magazines as sources to present biographical materials on some of the early settlers of Alaska and the Yukon. ISBN0788400878. wln95-8587. |
| Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950 | Ferrell, Ed. , Volume 3 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997), 353 pp., paper, ISBN 0788407-015, 1540-E Pointer Place Ridge, Suite 301, Bowie, MD 20716. LC95-105172. A third volume containing four hundred biographies with source notes, written by a longtime resident of Juneau. |
| Birthplace of the Winds: Adventuring in Alaska's Islands of Fire and Ice |
Bowermaster, Jon. (Washington, DC: Adventure Press/National
Geographic), 264 pp., cloth, ISBN 0792275063, 1145 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4688. Four adventurous
kayakers explore the Islands of the Four Mountains in the
middle of the Aleutia ebook available to read online at Internet Archive |
| Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths Reported in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 1940-1949 | Carroll, Suzanne, editor. (Fairbanks: Fairbanks Genealogical Society, 2000), 237 pp., comb-bound, P.O. Box 60534, Fairbanks, AK 99706-0534. Even the names of the deceased in the "Notices to Creditors" classified ads are included among some 15,000 entries. |
| Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier | Ravage, John W. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 224 pp., cloth, ISBN0874805465, 1795 E. South Campus Dr., Suite 101, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-9402, 800-773-6672. Descriptions (including photographs) and evaluations of black experiences on the American frontier, Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii in the areas of housing, employment, politics, education, economics, and social issues. |
| Blankets and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch | Simeone, William E. Rifles, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 224 p., cloth, ISBN 0806127139, P.O. Box 787, Norman, OK 73070-0787. A study of possessions and culture in the lives of Northern Athapaskans in Tanacross, Alaska. LC 94-48470. |
| Blazing Alaska's Trails | 1953, Joint publication of the University of Alaska and the Arctic Institute of North America. |
| Boats of Alaska | Walker, Harry M. (Kenmore, WA ; Fairbanks, AK ; Portland, OR: Epicenter Press, c2000), 64 pp., ISBN 094539781X, Box 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028. Photographic tour of boats and boat owners of the 49th state. |
| Bones, Boats & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America | Dixon, E. James.(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999) 322 pp., cloth, ISBN 0826320570, or paper, ISBN 0826321380, 1-800-249-7737. This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World. |
| Book by the Goose Pilot | Stedman, Bill. (Petersburg: Pilot Publishing, Inc., 1998), 58 pp., paperback, ISBN0964276348, P.O. Box 930, Petersburg, AK 99833. A pilot reflects on his family, Southeast Alaska, and flying. |
| Book of the Tongass | edited by Carol Servid and Don Snow (Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, 1999) 297 pp., paper, ISBN 1571312269, 1-800-520-6455. Thirteen Alaskans describe the region's spectacular forest and wildlife, its economic opportunities, and in two pieces by Tlingit storytellers, its oral history. |
| Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier | Jack de Yonge. (Epicenter Press, 2010, 255 pages.) This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge set in Fairbanks, Alaska -- a once thriving little mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast territory in 1934. |
| Borestone to Bering Strait: Glimpses of the Adventures of Terris Moore in the Mountains of Three Continents and Flights as a Seaplane Pilot Northward to the Frozen Ocean | Moore, Katrina H. (Westwood, Mass.: The Author, 1999) 260 pp., paper, request from Katrina Smathers, 675 Orange Avenue, Los Altos CA 94022. Biography of a Maine-born mountaineer and bush pilot who became the second president of the University of Alaska in 1949; written by his wife and edited by his daughter. |
| Boston Men on the Northwest Coast: the American Maritime Fur Trade, 1788-1844 | Malloy, Mary.(Kingston, Ont. ; Fairbanks: Limestone Press: University of Alaska Press [distributor], 1998), 232 pp., cloth, ISBN1895901189 (Series: Alaska history no. 47), P.O. Box 756240, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6240. Explores the strong commercial ties that bound New England's merchant mariners to the native peoples of the Northwest Coast. Includes information listed by ship's name. |
| Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition | Fienup-Riordan, Ann. / Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 389p. Describes the Yup'ik view of the world and the oral traditions that structure how life is lived. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN0806126043. LC93-23220. |
| Breaking Trail | Hetteen, Edgar with Jay Lemke. (Bemidji, MN: Focus Publishing, 1998), 282 pp., cloth, ISBN1885904991, 1375 Washington Avenue South, Bemidji, MN 56601. Autobiography of Hetteen, the "grandfather of snowmobiling," who founded two pioneer snowmobile companies and demonstrated his machines in a 1960 run from Bethel to Fairbanks. |
| Breaking Trail: Hudson Stuck of Texas and Alaska |
Dean, David M., (published 1988, Athens: Ohio University
Press), 344 pp. includes index. Biography of Hudson Stuck.
"... emigrated from England to America in 1885 ... frontier
missionary ... organized the first successful ascent of
Denali ... twenty-eight year labor to bring physical and
spiritual solace to the isolated Indians, Eskimo, and white
settlers of the Yukon ... champion of natives' rights in
Alaks, an opponent of salmon canneries that depleted the
native food supply, and a stong advocate of native people's
autonomy in the face of white expansion into Alaska." ebook available to read online at Internet Archive |
| Bristol Bay, Alaska, From the Hinterlands to Tidewater: A Grassroots Pictorial, 1885-1965 | Branson, John B. (Anchorage: Alaska Support Office, National Park Service, 1998), 119 pp., paper, ISBN0941555046, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892. Limited edition album of annotated photographs and newspaper clippings, compiled and reproduced by the Ranger-Historian for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. |
| British Columbia Place Names |
Akrigg, G. P. V. and Helen B. Akrigg. ,
3rd edition (Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 1997), 304 pp.,
cloth, ISBN0774806362, University of British Columbia, 6344
Memorial Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2. A new edition of the
BC classic to which the authors have dedicated over 40
years. Fascinating for browsers and an invaluable source for
historians.
ebook available to read online at Internet Archive |
| Building in an Ashen Land: Katmai National Park and Preserve Historic Resource Study | Clemens, Janet and Frank Norris. (Anchorage: National Park Service Alaska Support Office, 1999) 204 pp., paper, Lake Clark Katmai Studies Center, 4230 University Dr., Ste. 311, Anchorage AK 99508. An illustrated history of this unique western Alaskan park unit. |
| Building in the North | Rice, Elbert Floyd. , 4th edition (Anchorage, AK: Alaska Science and Technology Foundation, 1996), 93 p., paper, (complimentary copies available from 4500 Diplomacy Drive, Suite 515, Anchorage, AK 99508-5918). wln96-339449. Selection of articles that originally appeared in Northern Engineer, updated and enhanced in this fourth edition. A basic information source. |
| Building the Alaska Log Home | Walker, Tom. (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1998), 178 pp., paperback, ISBN088240511X, order from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co., P.O. Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306, 1-800-452-3032. The author/photographer offers useful text, color drawings and photographs in describing every step in building with logs. Essentially a reprint of the 1984 edition. |
| Buildings of Alaska |
by Hoagland, Alison K. - Buildings of
Alaska (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
ebook available to borrow at Internet Archive |
