"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| Machine Shop at Kennecott: a Collection Plan | Sweeney, Mary Ann. (Copper Center, AK: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park/Preserve, 2000), 219 pp., spiral-bound, request from P.O. Box 439, Copper Center, AK 99573. A study of industrial artifacts found in the machine shop at the Kennecott copper mine, which was abruptly abandoned in 1938. |
| Make it pay!: gold dredge #4: Klondike, Yukon, Canada | Neufeld, David. / Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co., 1994. 64p. Pictures of the dredge, information on how it works, and some gold mining history about the Klondike River Valley make this book a useful addition to gold mining literature. ISBN0929521889. |
| Making history: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq life on the Alaska Peninsula | by Patricia H. Partnow. Published/Created: Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, c2001. Description: xiv, 296 p.: ill., maps; 24 cm. ISBN: 1889963380 (cloth: alk. paper) 1889963399 (pbk.: alk. paper) Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction i -- How This Book Came Abouti -- History and Ethnohistory 2 -- History as Interpretation 5 -- How This Book is Arranged7 -- The Storytellers8 -- Perryville -- Ivanof Bay -- Chignik Lake -- Chignik Bay -- Port Heiden -- Chignik Lagoon -- South Naknek -- Other Storytellers --Alutiiqs and the Land 6 -- The Land 7 -- Alaska Peninsula Inhabitants2 --The Precontact Period on -- the Alaska Peninsula 28 -- Origins 28 -- Precontact Culture as Reported by the Russians 32 The Russian Period on the -- Alaska Peninsula: 74I to I86755 -- Europeans Learn about the Alaska Peninsula 55 -- Russian Economic Interests in the Alaska Peninsula 57 -- 1780s to 1818 -- 1818 to 1867 -- Russians Along the Katmai Coast and the Naknek River -- Drainage 67 -- Baidarshchiks -- Katmai in the Nineteenth Century -- Russian Period Alutiiq Settlements 72 -- Russian Orthodoxy and the Alutiiqs 76 -- Creoles 87 -- Effects of Company and Church on Alaska Peninsula -- Alutiiqs88 -- Population Decline -- Changes in Warfare and Trading Practices -- Subsistence -- Beginning of anAlutiiq Identity --The American Period, 1867 to 91202 -- The American Fur Trade Io2 -- End of the Fur Trade121 -- Subsistence25 -- Commercial Fishing and Other Economic Opportunities -- on the Alaska Peninsula30 -- Creoles in the American Period37 -- Alaska Peninsula Villages in the Nineteenth Century 139 -- Religion 154 -- Gambling as Control: The Game of Kaataq 159 -- Health 63 -- Dawning of the Twentieth Century64 Katmai, 1912 74 -- The Katmai Eruption74 -- Posteruption SettlementsI89 The American Period, 1912 to World War II 93 -- Social StructureI93 -- Population Dynamics I98 -- Population Increase -- Villages -- Economy 21o -- Subsistence and the Continuation of Tradition -- Fishing and Cannery Work -- Furs -- Reindeer -- Education 241 -- Organized Religion242 -- Disasters, Natural and Human 243 -- Postscript: World War II and Life after the War 249 -- Afterword: History Made and Remade 256 --References Cited 260 --Index273. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-285) and index. |
| Marius Barbeau: Man of Mana | Nowry, Laurence. (Toronto: NC Press, 1996), 445 pp., paper, ISBN 1550211005, 345 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1R5. Life story of the prolific Geological Survey of Canada anthropologist who documented Native cultures of the Alaskan and British Columbia coasts during the first half of the twentieth century. |
| Marsden of Alaska | A Modern Indian - Minister, Missionary, Musician, Engineer, Pilot, boat Builder and Church Builder, by William Gilbert Beattiet, 1955, 246 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" hardcover with dust jacket, good condition. From the jacket:From this volume emerges a striking portrait of Edward Marsden, Alaskan Indian, who rose, despite great odds, to a position of eminence among distinguished world figures of his generation. And through his story runs an inspiring account of the transformation of an entire people from barbarism to civilized status in the short space of one generation.A full-blooded Tsimshean Indian who took part in the mass migration of his tribe from British Columbia to Metlakatla in southeast Alaska. Edward Marsden was the best argument for his own burning conviction: that the Indian, once educated, could take his place beside the self-reliant civilized white. His life was devoted to attaining for his fellow Indians the rights and privileges which would guarantee them both education and opportunity to prove their abilities.Marsden was a man of many "firsts": first Alaska native to achieve a college education in the States; first to attain full citizenship; and, after study at an Ohio divinity school, first to be ordained to the ministry. After his ordination, he returned to Alaska to serve his people, not only with spiritual counsel but with guidance in material fields where the need was desperate.By the time of his death in 1932, Marsden had contributed immeasurably to the progress of his own people - and to the advance of the entire native population of Alaska as well. This spirited biography brings home the essential fineness of an outstanding man and the significance of a truly heroic life. |
| Martha Black: Her Story from the Dawson Gold Fields to the Halls of Parliament | Whyard, Flo, editor, (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1998), 190 pp., paper, ISBN088240508X, order from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co., P.O. Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306, 1-800-452-3032. With the addition of a new 24-page photographic "Portfolio", this is a reissue of the editor's 1976 book My Ninety Years, itself a revision of Martha Black's 1938 classic, My Seventy Years. Unhappily married, pregnant and thirty-two, Chicago socialite Martha Black joined the Klondike gold rush alone, settled in Dawson, and later represented the Yukon in Canada's Parliament. |
| Matanuska Colony: Fifty Years, 1935-1985 | by Brigitte Lively |
| Matanuska Valley memoir: The story of how one Alaskan community developed | by Hugh A Johnson |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough. (Matanuska Valley, Alaska): An article from: Alaska Business Monthly | by Robin Mackey Hill |
| Meander to Alaska | by Irving Petit, 1970 publication by Doubleday & Co. traveling up the inside passage to Alaska in a small boat. |
| Memories of Latouche | Andresen, Decema Kimball. (Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1997), 38 pp., paper, ISBN 1-888125-17-9, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. wln98-011484. The author grew up at the Prince William Sound copper mine on Latouche Island. |
| Memories of Old Sunrise: Gold Mining on Alaska's Turnagain Arm | Morgan, Albert Weldon. / edited by Rolfe G. Buzzell / Anchorage: Cook Inlet Historical Society (121 West 7th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501), 1994. 104p. Adventures of a Gold Rush miner in the Turnagain Arm area, south of Anchorage, 1897-1901. ISBN187862016. LC94-68464. |
| Memory Eternal I: A Baseline Inventory of the Burials Surrounding the Holy Ascension Cathedral at Unalaska, Alaska | Murray, Marti. (Unalaska: The Author, 1997), 48 pp., paper, 46170 Spruce Place, Kenai, AK 99611. Illustrated with color photographs, this booklet inventories thirty-eight graves on the grounds of this Russian Orthodox cathedral and gives brief biographies of those who are buried. |
| Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries | Kan, Sergei.(Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1999), 665 pp., cloth, ISBN 0295978066, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle WA 98145-5096. A native speaker of Russian with 18 years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. |
| Miner, Preacher, Doctor, Teacher: Stories of an Odyssey from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Ketchikan, Alaska, to a Pioneering Medical Career in Oakland, California | Loomis, Frederic; compiled by Lee Sims. (Walnut Creek, CA: Hardscratch Press, 2000), 128 pp., paper, ISBN 0962542997, order from Wizard Works, P.O. Box 1125, Homer, AK 99603-1125. Alaskan portion includes a description of turn-of-the-century life at the Prince of Wales Island mining camp of Dolomi. |
| Mining Railways of the Klondike: Narrow Gauge Railways Serving Coal Mines on Cliff Creek and Coal Creek, and a Placer Gold Operation on Bear Creek, Yukon Territory, 1899 to 1918 Klondike | Johnson, Eric L. (Vancouver: Pacific Coast Division Canadian Railroad Historical Association, 1995), 78 p., ISBN 0-9697633-4-4, Box 1006, Station A, Vancouver, BC V6C 2Pl. A publication for railroad buffs interested in the Yukon's history. wln95-145344. |
| Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness, Alaska | Roppel, Patricia. (Wrangell: Farwest Research, 2000), 240 pp., ISBN 15783331250, P. O. Box 1998, Wrangell, AK 99929. History, natural history, and place name information about this southeast Alaskan wilderness area. |
| Moments Rightly Placed: An Aleutian Memoir | Hudson, Ray. (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1998), 223 pp., paper, ISBN0945397496, Box 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028. A schoolteacher tells what he learned from the Native elders of Unalaska from the time he moved to that Aleutian town in 1964 until he left in 1992. |
| Mostly Music: the Story of Lorene C. Harrison, Alaska's Cultural Pioneer | Barske, Dianne. (Anchorage: Publications Consultants, 2000), 248 pp., paper, ISBN 1888125616, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Life story of Anchorage's first music teacher, who has actively served the community for seven decades. |
| Movie Man: the Life and Times of William David Gross, 1879-1962 | DeArmond, R. N., editing and epilogue by Karleen Alstead Grummett, [Sitka: R. N. DeArmond, 2000?], 34 pp., paper. Biography of a Jewish immigrant who arrived in Alaska during the Gold Rush and built a movie theater chain headquartered in Juneau. |
| Mr. Whitekeys' Alaska Bizarre: Direct from the Whale Fat Follies Revue in Anchorage | Whitekeys, Mr.,(Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1995), 144 p., ISBN 0882404709, 2208 NW Market St., Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98107. Nightclub owner's view of Alaska. LC 95-34812. |
| Murder in the Family | Barer, Burl, (New York: Kensington Pub. Corp., 2000), 319 pp., paper, ISBN 0786011351, 850 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Recounts 1987 killings of mother and two children in Anchorage and subsequent arrest and trial of killer, a relative of the Newman family. |
| My Forefathers are Still Walking with Me: Verbal Essays on Qizhjeh an Tsaynen Dena'Ina Traditions |
Baluta, Andrew (Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, 2008)
164 p., ISBN: 0-9749668-9-4. Transcribed and edited by James
Kari. ebook available to read online at Internet Archive |
| My Heart on the Yukon River: Portraits from Alaska and the Yukon | Dykstra, Monique. (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1997), 126 pp., paper, ISBN 0874221579, PO Box 645910 Pullman, WA 99164-5910. LC97-26116. Photographer Dykstra canoes down the Yukon recording tales of some who live there; 45 black and white portraits. |
| Myth of the Explorer: The Press, Sensationalism, and Geographical Discovery | Riffenburgh, Beau. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 226 p., paper, ISBN 019285299X, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4314. Focusing on the years 1855-1910, shows how the press created the explorer as hero; includes DeLong, Peary, and Cook. LC 94-09382. |
