"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| Eagle Transforming: the Art of Robert Davidson | Steltzer, Lilli, and Robert Davidson. / Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. 164p. Davidson is a major contemporary Canadian artist. This book combines pictures of his work and him at work, with biographical information and a text by Davidson, musing about his work, life, training and himself. A fine book. ISBN0295973714. LC94-6768. |
| Early Days in Wasilla | by Louise Potter, 1963, reprint 2003 by Alaskana Books |
| Early History of the Alaska Permanent Fund: Perspectives on the Origins of Alaska's Oil Savings Account | (Juneau, AK: Permanent Fund Corporation, 1997), 76 pp., P.O. Box 4-1000, Juneau 99802. wln97100468. A founder's reflections on the early days of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation / by Elmer Rasmuson -- The creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund: a short history / by Joan Kasson -- The Permanent Fund Dividend Program: Alaska's noble experiment / by Clifford John Groh and Gregg Erickson -- Alaska's Permanent Fund: legislative history, intent and operations / by the Rural Research Agency, Alaska State Senate. |
| Early Kachemak Phase on Kodiak Island at Old Kiavak | Clark, Donald W. (Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1997), 129 pp., paper, ISBN 0660159678. Report describes the University of Wisconsin's 1963 excavations on Kodiak Island. |
| Early Maritime Cultures of Northwestern Priokhot'e | Lebedintsev, Aleksandr I., translated by Richard L. Bland (Anchorage: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2000), 288 pp., paper, request from 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892. Translation of a 1990 archeological study of the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Magadan Region of the Russian Far East. |
| Early Photographs of Our National Parks | Haigh, Jane. Denali: (Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2000), 112 pp., paper, ISBN 0968195571, Box 31275, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5P7. A selection of black and white photographs of Denali National Park and Preserve, taken through the 1930s. |
| Early Views: Historical Vignettes of Sitka National Historical Park | Griffin, Kristen. (Anchorage: Alaska Support Office, National Park Service and Sitka National Historical Park, 2000), 127 pp., paper, request from National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892. Containing over seventy illustrations, many in color, this is a history of the smallest and oldest federal park unit in Alaska. |
| Early Years of Juneau, Alaska (1880-1890) | Ferrell, Nancy Warren. (Juneau: LapCat Publications, 1997), 24 pp., paper, ISBN 096419984X, Box 20465, Juneau, AK 99802. Brief illustrated history of the first decade in a mining camp that became Alaska's capital city. |
| Earning a Place in History: Shee Atika, the Sitka Native Claims Corporation | Metcalfe, Peter. (Sitka: Shee Atika Incorporated, 2000), 88 pp., paper, request from Shee Atika, Inc., Sitka, AK 99835. Illustrated history of the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act as it relates to one of only four urban corporations established under it. |
| Economics of a Disaster: the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill | Bruce M. Owen...[et al.].(Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1995), 200 p., ISBN 0899309879, Imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Rd. W. Box 5007, Westport, CT, 06881. Economic analysis of question of oil spill affects on the price of seafood. LC 95-3782. |
| Edge of Tomorrow: An Arctic Year | Wright, Sam. (Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1998) 177 pp., paper,ISBN0874221625, P.O. Box 645910, Pullman WA 99164-5910. Living in a hand-built, twelve-by-twelve cabin, Wright records seasonal changes and his own thoughts as he and his wife spend a year in isolation and contemplation in the Brooks Range. |
| Eighteen Wheels North to Alaska: A History of Trucking in Alaska | by Cliff Bishop,Publisher: Publication Consultants, 224 pages, ISBN-10: 1594331103, ISBN-13: 9781594331107, First hand account of big rig trucking in Alaska |
| Ellangellemni: When I Became Aware | Orr, Eliza Cingarkaq. (Fairbanks; Lower Kuskokwim School District and Alaska Native Language Center, 1997), 630 pp., paper, ISBN 155500614, 219 Eielson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99701. Yup'ik stories as told by the elders of Tununak, a village on the Bering Sea. Told in Yup'ik with English translations, illustrated with black and white photographs. |
| Elmendorf Air Force Base Homestead Study | Daugherty, Paula M. and Becky M. Saleeby. (Anchorage: National Park Service, Alaska Support Office, 1998), 82 pp., paper, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892. Illustrated history of the cultural remains of civilian homesteads which were incorporated into Elemendorf Air Force Base, near Anchorage, in the early 1940s. |
| Elmendorf Air Force Base, Volume I: Historic Context of World War II Buildings and Structures | Cook, Linda. ([Anchorage: Alaska Support Office,] National Park Service, 1999) 106 pp., paper, 2525 Gambell Street, Anchorage AK 99503-2892. Illustrated history of this Anchorage Air Force installation and a survey of its buildings, except for those built between 1940-45, which will appear in Volume II. |
| Empire's Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934 | Jones, Preston. |
| Empreinte: presence francophone au Yukon | Boucher, Caroline. (1825-1950); t.1: Liste alphabetique; t.2 Recueil historique (Whitehorse, YT: Association Franco-Yukonnaise, 1997), 2 vol., paperbound, ISBN2922348008 (v.1), ISBN2922348016 (v.2), C.P. 5205, Whitehorse, YT Y1A4Z1. Wln98089285. Name list and biographies of French-speaking settlers in the Yukon, with the source of the information noted after each entry. |
| Encounters with a Distant Land: Exploration and the Great Northwest | Schwantes, Carlos A., editor.(Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1994), 220 p., cloth ISBN 0893011657, 16 Brink Hall, Moscow, ID 83844-1107. Collection of fourteen essays, including one by Stephen Haycox of the University of Alaska Anchorage on the increase in Alaska history research and publication over the past twenty years. LC 93-018483. |
| Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography |
Thrapp, Dan L., published in 1988
ebook available to read at Internet Archive |
| Endangered Peoples of the Arctic: Struggles to Survive and Thrive | Freeman, Milton M.R., editor. (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000), 278 pp., cloth, ISBN 0313306494, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881. Covers northern circumpolar indigenous peoples, including the two Alaska-related articles on the Inupiat and the Yupik, written by anthropologists. |
| Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805 | Haycox, Stephen, James K. Barnett, and Caedmon A. Liburd, editors. (Seattle: Published for the Cook Inlet Historical Society by the University of Washington Press, 1997), 220 pp., paper, ISBN 0295975830, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. LC96-037993. Overview of this regions' early history and European explorations. |
| Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives | Fields, Leslie Leyland. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 156 pp., cloth, ISBN 0252022203; paper, ISBN0252065654. LC 96-4492. The author, a fisher herself, writes about her experiences in Kodiak and includes the narratives of other women who reflect on their fishing careers in Alaska. |
| Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition | Johnson, Robert David. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 375 pp., cloth, ISBN0674260600, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Biography of the Harvard medical school graduate who turned to journalism and later to politics, serving as governor of Alaska and then as one of the state's first U.S. senators. |
| Eskimo Carvers of the Bering Sea: walrus ivory carvings by Alaska's finest | Kessler, Dale. / Nixa, MO: A&J Printing Co. (POB 513, Nixa, MO 65714), 1994. 100p. Information and color illustration about carvers and carvings from the Bering Sea area of Alaska. wln94-62984. |
| Eskimo of North Alaska | Chance, Norman A., Softcover. Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston, ISBN-10: 003057160X, ISBN-13: 9780030571602, 1966 copyright. 108 pages. Contents: Innupiat: The Genuine People, Growing Up: Attitudes towards children ~ birth and infancy ~ childhood ~ youth and courtship, Making a Living: The Seasonal round ~ changes in hunting patterns ~ modern economic life, Village Life: The modern setting ~ Marriage, family and kin ~ Other social groups ~ Leadership patterns ~ Law and social control, Cultural Values: Man's relation to nature ~ Man's relation to man ~ Values and personality, Dynamics of Change: Changes in village integration ~ The quest for identity ~ Personality adjustment |
| Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska | Hall, Edwin S., Jr. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1998 1975), 491 pp., paperback, ISBN1889996302, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756240, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6240. A paperback reissue of the classic authoritative account of the narrative history of place and people in Northwest Alaska. |
| Eskimos and Explorers | Oswalt, Wendell H., 2nd edition (Linclon, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1999) 341 pp., paper, ISBN 0803286139, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE 68588-0484. This second edition of the 1979 classic has been fully updated and features the most recent information on the cultures and histories of Native peoples in Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland. |
| Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume 6. British Columbia & the Yukon | Foster, H., editor, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 583 p., cloth, ISBN 0-8020-0789-9 or paper, ISBN 0802071511, plus postage, Front Campus, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5SlA6. |
| Experiences of Gold Hunters in Alaska: The Story of the Valdez and Copper River Gold Rush | Margeson, Charles. (Valdez: Prince William Sound Books, 1997), 240 pp., ISBN 1877900095, P.O. Box 1313, Valdez, AK 99686. wln97-141797. Reprint of a scarce 1899 classic about the gold rush; most of the original edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire. |
| Exploring Alaska & British Columbia | Hilson, Stephen E. (Shoreline, Wash.: Evergreen Pacific Publishing, Ltd., 1997), 111 pp., spiral bound, ISBN094526559X, 18002 15th Avenue NE, Suite B, Shoreline, WA 98155-3838. Reprint of this historical reference atlas with annotated charts and color photographs. |
| Exploring Alaska & British Columbia | Hilson, Stephen E. (Shoreline, Wash.: Evergreen Pacific Publishing, Ltd., 1997), 111 pp., spiral bound, ISBN094526559X, 18002 15th Avenue NE, Suite B, Shoreline, WA 98155-3838. Reprint of this historical reference atlas with annotated charts and color photographs. |
| Exploring Southeast Alaska: Dixon entrance to Skagway: Details of Every Harbor and Cove | Douglass, Don, and Reanne Hemingway Douglass.: Itineraries of the Inside Passage San Juan Islands to Glacier Bay (Anacortes, WA: Fine Edge Productions, c2000), 543 pp., paper, ISBN 0938665588, 13589 Clayton Lane, Anacortes, WA 98221. Guidebook with great details for the Southeast Alaska cruising community. |
| Exploring the Alaska-Yukon bordercountry: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Kluane National Park Reserve, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge | De La Hunt, Jill. / photography and sidebars by John W. Page / Minocqua, WI: NorthWord Press, 1994. (Available from Alaska Natural History Association, 605 W. 4th Ave., Suite 85, Anchorage, AK 99501) Presents a brief overview of history, geology, and ecology of the region followed by a special section on each park or reserve. Excellent photography, with author's perspectives and comments. ISBN1559714301 (hbd); 1559714387pbk. LC94-19315. |
| Exploring the Inside Passage to Alaska: a Cruising Guide from the San Juan Islands to Glacier Bay | Douglass, Don, and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass. (Bishop, CA: Fine Edge Productions, c1995), 399 p., ISBN 0938665332 Route 2, Box 303, Bishop, CA 93514. General guide for skippers; gives local knowledge for exploring coasts: maps, anchorages. LC9447529. |
| Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem | , 2nd ed., edited by J. Steven Picou [et al.] (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1999) 337 pp., paper, ISBN 0787256854, available from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage AK 99501. The communities caught in the path of the oil spill or lying within easy reach of it were damaged in unmistakable if subtle ways. This textbook gathers papers from sociological viewpoints, allowing us a many-dimensioned look at one of the most important environmental disasters of modern times. |
| Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium | (1993: Anchorage, Alaska)/ Proceedings of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium/ edited by Stanley D. Rice...[et al.] (Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 1996), 931 p., ISBN0913235954 (5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110, Bethesda, MD 20814-2199). LC96-085358. |
| Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate and Effects in Alaskan Waters | , edited by Peter G. Wells, James N. Butler, and Jane Staveley Hughes (Philadelphia: ASTM, 1995), 949 p., bound, ISBN 0803118961,, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA. "Papers presented at the Third Symposium on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment held in Atlanta, Georgia on 26-28 April 1993. LC95-25366. |
| Exxon Valdez oil spill: final report, state of Alaska response | Piper, Ernest. / Anchorage, AK: Alaska Department of Environment Conservation, 1993. 184p. A summing up of the Exxon Valdez spill, explains the state activities--the organization, technology, clean-up--and results--legal, regulatory, and administrative changes and restoration. LC93-72684. |
