"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| Salmon from Kodiak : an history of the salmon fishery of Kodiak Island, Alaska | by Patricia Roppel. Published/Created: [Anchorage, Alaska] : Alaska Historical Commission, c1986. Description: xi, 355 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN: 0943712203 (pbk.) Notes: Map on lining papers. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 336. |
| School Teacher in Old Alaska: the Story of Hannah Breece | Breece, Hannah. (New York: Random House, 1995), 302 p., ISBN 0679441344, 400 Hahn Road, Westminster, MD 21157. Forty-five when she came to Alaska in 1904, Hannah Breece's memoirs, rewritten by her grandneice Jane Jacobs, tell of teaching in the wilderness until 1918. LC 95-2486. |
| Science and Technology in Alaska's Past: Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alaska Historical Society, Anchorage, Alaska, November 29-December 2,1990 | (Anchorage: Alaska Historical Society, 1996),194 p., comb-bound, ISBN0940521 (PO Box 100299, Anchorage, AK 99510-0299). |
| Science Under Sail: Russia's Great Voyages to America, 1728-1867 | Smith, Barbara Sweetland. (Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2000), 40 pp., paper, ISBN 1885267029, Anchorage Museum of History and Art Gift Shop, 121 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Catalog for an exhibit that documents the history of scientific discovery in the North Pacific during Alaska's Russian period. |
| Science Under Sail: Russia's Great Voyages to America, 1728-1867-Instructional Guide | Matthews, Donna, and Barbara Sweetland Smith. (Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2000), 201 pp., spiral-bound, ISBN 1885267037, Anchorage Museum of History and Art Gift Shop, 121 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Illustrated study materials and classroom activities arranged around ten topics, to accompany the museum exhibit of the same name. |
| Sea Otter Chiefs | Robinson, Michael P. (Calgary: Bayeaux Arts Incorporated, 1996), 96 pp., cloth, ISBN1896209181, P.O. Box 586, 1 Holway Point, Machias, ME 04654. Life histories of three great Northwest Coast chiefs-from the Kiusta, Yuquot, and Metlakahtla tribes--who masterminded the development of the sea otter pelt trade with the first seagoing capitalists from the West. The chief's villages ranged from Queen Charlotte Island to Vancouver Island. |
| Sea Stories of the Inside Passage: in the Wake of the Nid | Lawrence, Iain. (Bishop, Calif.: Fine Edge Productions, 1997), 167 pp., paperback, ISBN0938665472, Route 2 Box 303, Bishop, CA 93514. Personal stories that capture the essence and flavor of the Inside Passage. |
| Search for the Northwest Passage: a bicentennial exhibition on the voyages of George Vancouver | Alaska State Museum. / Juneau, AK: Alaska State Museum, Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, Department of Education (395 Whittier St., Juneau, AK 99801-1718), 1994-. 15p. Catalog of the Vancouver exhibit held in 1994. wln94-297095. |
| Searching for the Franklin Expedition: the Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter | Carter, Robert Randolph. , edited by Harold B. Gill, Jr. and Joanne Young (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998), 201 pp., cloth, ISBN1557503214, U.S. Naval Institute, 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21402. A day by day account of the 1850-1851 expedition in search of the British naval captain, his two ships, and 129 men of the Royal Navy who had vanished into a frozen region of northern Canada on a quest for the Northwest Passage in 1845. |
| Seldovia Alaska: an Historical Portrait of Life in Zaliv Seldevoe-Herring Bay | Springer, Susan Woodward. (Littleton, CO: Blue Willow, 1997), 240 pp., paperbound, ISBN1889796034, PO Box 6212227, Littleton, CO 80162. LC97-074728. Highly readable, extensive history using many documents and sources. |
| Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands | MacLeish, Sumner.(Fairbanks, AK: Epicenter Press, 1997), 159 pp., cloth, ISBN0945397356, Box 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028. LC97-075309. Reflections and stories of life on a remote Alaska Island far out in the Bering Sea during the 1980s. |
| Seward, Alaska: A History of the Gateway City, Volume III: Growth, Tragedy, Recovery, Adaptation, 1924-1993 | Barry, Mary J. (Anchorage: MJP Barry, 1995), 400 p., paper, ISBN O961700947, 323 West Harvard Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. LC 86-071202. |
| She Was a Sister Sailor: The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851 | Brewster, Mary. / edited by Joan Druett (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1992), 449 p., cloth, ISBN0913372609, (order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501). LC94-111649. |
| Sheldon Jackson, The Collector | Carlton, Rosemary. (Juneau: Alaska State Museums, 1999) 95 pp., paper, Sheldon Jackson Museum, 104 College Drive, Sitka AK 99835. A study of Jackson, the nineteenth-century Presbyterian missionary, as a collector of Alaskan Native artifacts. |
| Shtutda'ina da'a shel qudel = My forefathers are still walking with me : verbal essays on Qizhjeh and Tsaynen Dena'ina traditions | by Andrew Balluta ; transcribed and edited by James Kari. Published/Created: Anchorage, Alaska : Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, 2008. Description: xii, 147 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 22 cm. ISBN: 0974966894 (pbk.) |
| Siberian Yupik Eskimo: the language and its contacts with Chukchi | Reuse, Willem J. / Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994. 424p. Detailed historical and linguistic study of language common to Alaska's St. Lawrence Island and the Siberian mainland. Based on author's PhD thesis. ISBN0874803977. LC9350808. |
| Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing | Issenman, Betty Kobayashi. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 274 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-77480596X, distributed by University of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. cn97-910494. Beautifully illustrated, this volume brings together information on all aspects of Inuit clothing, its design and role in Inuit cultures; includes Inupiat and Yu'pik attire. |
| Sitka | Rennick, Penny, and L.J. Campbell. (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, c1995), 144 p., ISBN 156661029X, P.O. Box 93370, Anchorage, AK 99509. LC 95-40004. |
| Sitka at War: World War II | Sitka Community Schools. Seniors and Sitka Sound Youth (SASSY) Program. stories shared by Sitka's elders (1994) and Conservations with Sitka Elders Conservations with Sitka Elders (1993). Students in freshman English class record experiences of Sitka's pioneers in these 2 slim volumes. |
| Sitka Man | by Al Brookman, For six decades, Brookman lived his dream: his home a fishing boat, his estate the waterways and island wilderness of southeastern Alaska, his family table supplied from land and sea |
| Sitka Tribe of Alaska Historic Preservation Plan | Theodoratus, Dorothea J. (Washington, DC: US Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1995), 124 p., paper, (free from Alaska Regional Office, National Park Service, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892). LC96-203471. Contains much on Tlingit history of this southeast Alaska town. |
| Sitka: A Short History | by Jack Calvin; a nice short history with some lovely wood engravings. |
| Sixty Odd Years: An Alaskan's Selected Reminiscences | Nye, Dagmar I. (Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1999) 288 pp., paper, ISBN 1888125411, available from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage AK 99501. Memories of childhood, youth, and adulthood as a woman of Alaska. |
Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike |
Teaching with Historic Places. by ERIC, 1999. "This lesson
aims to help students understand the impact of the Klondike
Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska, a town
which now has a year-round population of only 800 but which
hosts half a million tourists annually. The lesson can be
used in units on western expansion, on late 19th- and early
20th-century commerce, and on urban history. It notes that
Skagway (located about 100 miles north of Juneau) was
established as a result of an 1897 gold strike which began
in the Klondike region of Canada's Yukon Territory, and it
points out that even though Skagway's "boomtown" era lasted
only briefly, it remains alive in the many
turn-of-the-century buildings that survive. The lesson is
divided into the following sections which include maps,
readings, photographs, and activities: (1) "Routes from
Seattle to Klondike"; (2) "Chilkoot and White Pass Trails";
(3) "Gold Is Discovered in the Klondike"; (4) "Settlement
and Commerce"; (5) "Transportation: Key to Survival"; (6)
"Skagway, Alaska 1898"; (7) "Trail Street, Skagway 1897";
(8) "Historic Development of William Moore Cabin and Ben
Moore House"; (9) "Ben Moore and Family Moore House 1904";
(10) "Golden North Hotel"; (11) "Arctic Brotherhood Hall";
(12) "McCabe College Building"; (13) "Gold Rushes"; and (14)
"History and the Use of Local Buildings." Contains 11 Web
sites that are supplementary resources to the Klondike." Available online at Internet Archives |
| Skeena, River of Destiny | Large, R. Geddes. (Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House, 1996), 214 p., paper,ISBN1895811198 (#8 - 17921 55th Avenue, Surrey, BC V7S 6C4). cn96-9103530. Reprint of 1957 classic study of the Skeena River in British Columbia. |
| Skimming the Top of the World: Traveling among Peoples of the Far North | Patten, Edith P. / photography, Caroline Canafax (Seattle, WA: Hara Pub., c2000), 244 pp., paper, ISBN 1883697980, P.O. Box 19732, Seattle, WA 98109. Writer and photographer recount their visits to Alaska (11 trips in all) between 1976 and 1990. |
| Sm'algyax: a Reference Dictionary and Grammar for the Coast Tsimshian Language | Dunn, John Asher. (Seattle: University of Washington Press ; Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Foundation, 1995), 259 pp., paperback, ISBN0295974192, Sealaska Heritage Foundation, One Sealaska Plaza, Suite 201, Juneau, AK 99801-1249. Facsimile reprint of John Dunn's classic, previously two-volume, work published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the late 1970s. |
| Soapy Smith, uncrowned king of Skagway | Clifford, Howard, editor, (Seattle: Sourdough Enterprises, 1997), 24 pp., paper, ISBN 091180305X, 16401 3rd Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98166. LC97-185263. Gambler and saloon keeper who ruled Skagway during the early tumultuous years of the Kondike gold rush, was a complex and hard to understand individual. |
| Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory | Cruikshank, Julie. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 211 pp., cloth, ISBN0803214901, 312 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0484. A study of indigenous oral narratives and their roles in Yukon Native society, by a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. |
| Sold American: the Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867 - 1959: the Army to Statehood | Mitchell, Donald Craig. (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College: University Press of New England, 1997), 476 pp., cloth, ISBN0874518008, Hanover, NH 03755-0248. LC96-041871. Detailed study of history, politics, land claims, and relations between the Federal government and Alaska natives before Statehood in 1959. |
| Some Bears Kill: True Life Tales of Terror | Kaniut, Larry. (Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1997), 313 pp., cloth, ISBN 1571570698. LC 96-71771. Second edition of stories of bear attacks in the Alaska wilderness. |
| Sourdough Sagas |
Heller, Herbert L. (Cleveland, World Pub. Co, 1967), 298 pp. Available to borrow at Internet Archive |
| Southeast Alaska: Early Photographs of the Great Land | Wilson, Graham. (Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 1999) 128 pp., paper, ISBN 0968195547, Box 31275, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5P7 Canada. A keepsake book of 125 familiar and unfamiliar historical photographs taken up through the 1920s. |
| Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners, 1788-1844 | Malloy, Mary. (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2000), 188 pp., paper, ISBN 0873658337, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. An illustrated look at artifacts held by ten institutions. |
| Spirit of Haida Gwaii: Bill Reid's Masterpiece | Steltzer, Ulli. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997), 61 pp., paper, ISBN0295976241 (PO Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096). LC98-51836, cn96-910846-C. Story of the sculpture, a 20 foot long canoe filled with creatures of Haida mythology, and its creator, the artist Bill Reid. |
| Spirit of the North: The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler | Woodward, Kesler. (Augusta, GA: Morris Communications with the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Morris Museum of Art, 1998), 120 pp., paper, ISBN1890021059, 725 Broad Street, Augusta, GA 30901. Catalog for an exhibit of the painter's work. He was active as a lay missionary and artist in Alaska from 1909 until 1924, continuing to paint Alaskan subject matter from his Seattle home until his death in 1969. |
| Spirit of the Wind: the Story of Alaska's George Attla, Legendary Sled Dog Sprint Champ | Freedman, Lew. (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2000), 223 pp., paper, ISBN 0945397933, Box 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028. Biography of the "Huslia Hustler," a new edition of George Attla: Legend of the Sled Dog Trail, published in 1993. |
| Staking Her Claim: the Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur | Mayer, Melanie J., and Robert N. DeArmond. (Athens: Swallow Press, 2000), 390 pp., cloth, ISBN 0804010218, or paper, ISBN 0804001226, Ohio University Press, Scott Quadrangle, Athens, OH 45701. Arriving in Alaska as a single woman in 1895, Irish immigrant Mulrooney established a successful retail operation. She joined the Klondike gold rush a few years later, founding towns and thriving as a restaurateur, banker, real estate developer, contractor, and merchant. |
| Stalking the Side-Hill Salmon: Collection of Lonnie Haughton's Boating, Fishing and Hunting Stories from the Pages of the Alaska Fisherman's Journal | Haughton, Lonnie. (Port Protection, AK: Great Wave Publishing, 1996), 130 p., ISBN0964063719 (22 Beach, Port Protection, AK 99950). LC96-75494. An Alaskan troller from the Southeast tells some good stories about his adventures. |
| Stampede For Gold: The Story of the Klondike Gold Rush | by Pierre Berton, Sterling Publishing, New York / London, 2007. ISBN-13 978-1-4027-51219. |
| State of Alaska | by Ernest Gruening, former Alaskan Governor |
| Stern and Rock-Bound Coast: Kenai Fjords National Park Historic Resource Study | Cook, Linda and Frank Norris. (Anchorage: National Park Service, Alaska Support Office, 1998), 429 pp., paper, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage, AK 99503-2892. One in a series of publications describing the prehistory and history of National Park units in Alaska. This study develops a broad historic context for the outer coast, its heroes, and their contributions to the region's history. |
| Steve McCutcheon's Alaska | Emanuel, Richard P. , Volume 25, Number 1 of Alaska Geographic (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1998), 96 pp., paper, P.O. Box 93370PR, Anchorage, AK 99509-3370. Tribute to a life-long Alaskan and photographer with selections from sixty years of photographs. Anchorage Museum of History and Art now holds these images in their collections. |
| Stone, Bone, Antler, and Shell: Artifacts of the Northwest Coast | Stewart, Hilary. (Vancouver ; Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre ; University of Washington Press, 1996), cloth, ISBN 0295975369. LC96012279. Second, revised edition (original U.S. title: Indian Artifacts of the Northwest Coast) of this basic work that explains and illustrates the tools, weapons, hunting and fishing gear, household and ceremonial items and ornaments that reveal much about a people's way of life. Includes Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida. |
| Stories Told by Our Elders: Stories Collected, Edited and Published by the Students at Te'sek Geht'roonatun Zzeh College | Beairsto, Shelagh, project coordinator, Rampart House, (Old Crow: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Lands & Resources Department, 1993), 70 pp., paper, P.O. Box 102, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0. Students of Old Crow College interview elders and visit the site of this abandoned border community on the Porcupine River. |
| Storm Run: The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race | by Libby Riddles |
| Story as Sharp as a Knife: the Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World | Bringhurst, Robert. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 527 pp., cloth, ISBN 080321314X or paper, ISBN 0803261799, Lincoln, NE 68588-0484. A translation and study of stories, poems, and history collected by ethnographer John Swanton. |
| Story of Glacier Valley: True Tales from the Top of Mt. Alyeska, Girdwood, Alaska | Bercee, Loverne. (Anchorage: Professional Colorgraphics Printing & Publishing, Inc., 1998) 119 pp., paper, P.O. Box 465, Girdwood, AK 99587. A compilation of personal stories about life in Girdwood and Mt. Alyeska, including the 1964 earthquake. |
| Strange Northwest: Weird Encounters in Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon and Washington | Bader, Chris. (Surrey, B.C.; Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 1995), 144 p., ISBN 0888393598, paper, 1431 Harrison Avenue, Blaine, WA 98230-5005. Bizarre tales from newspapers that feature Bigfoot, aliens, UFOs among others. cn95-9101519. |
| Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon | Ferrell, Ed. (Fairbanks, AK: Epicenter Press, 1996), 160 p., paper, ISBN0945397518 (Box 60529, Fairbanks, AK 99706, dist. By Graphic Arts Center Publishing, PO Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306). LC96-005220. "Unexplained phenomena with a northern twist-all the stories come from Alaska and Yukon of the 1880s to 1940s;" includes sources. |
| Strange, Amazing! True Tales of Alaska | Wendt, Ron. (Wasilla: Goldstream Publications, 1995), 64 p., ISBN 1886574103, paper, P.O. Box 870624, Wasilla, AK 99687. Many short stories from the Russian period to the present. LC 95-081491. |
| Strangers Among Us | Woodman, David C. (Montreal; Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995). cloth, 166 p., ISBN 0773513485, . wln96-57549, cn95-900539. Although discredited at the time, author Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions and the interviews of American Explorer Charles Francis Hall in 1865-69 in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition and argues that the stories may indeed refer to survivors of the expedition on the Melville Peninsula. Author of Unraveling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony. |
| Strangest Town in Alaska: the History of Whittier, Alaska and the Portage Valley | Taylor, Alan. (Seattle: Kokogiak Media, 2000), 114 pp., paper, ISBN 0967786002, 9457 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103. Consisting primarily of a Cold War era skyscraper at the end of a two-mile tunnel, Whittier probably is the "strangest town in Alaska." |
| Streets to the Past: The Historic Street Name Guide for Petersburg, Alaska | Blender, Emmalee. (Petersburg: Clausen Memorial Museum, 1999) 132 pp., paper, P.O. Box 708, Petersburg AK 99833. Illustrated with photographs; most are of fishing boats, which seems appropriate for this southeast Alaskan fishing community. |
| Stretching the Boundaries: a Collection of Writings | Kenny, Michael Hughes. (Juneau Alaska: Diocese of Juneau Publication c1995), 141 p., 419 Sixth St., Juneau, AK, 99801. LC 96-166756. Writings by Father Michael Kenny, well-loved Roman Catholic priest of Juneau, Alaska, who died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1994. |
| Sukdu nel nuhtghelnek = I’ll tell you a story: stories I recall from growing up on Iliamna Lake | by Walter Johnson ; transcribed and edited by James Kari. Published/Created: Fairbanks, AK : Alaska Native Language Center, 2004. Description: 81 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 3/4 in.) ISBN: 155500086X |
| Sure foundation: Aleut churches in World War II | Smith, Barbara Sweetland. / Anchorage, Alaska: The Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association (401 E. Fireweed Lane, Anchorage, AK 99503), 1994. 70p. "History of ten Aleut churches and their communities before and during World War II, and subsequent efforts to restore church artifacts and structures; includes many historic and contemporary photographs and profiles of the communities." ISBN0960930825. wln94-302473. |
| Survey of historic buildings, Deermount Street widening project, Ketchikan, Alaska (project no. 70629) | by Rolfe G. Buzzell. Published/Created: Anchorage, Alaska (P.O. Box 107001, Anchorage 99510-7001) : Office of History and Description: v, 29 leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm. Notes: "June 1993." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-29). |
| Sweet Stew: An Alaskan Tale | Rutherford, Kay M. (Coon Valley, WI: Aavery Press, c1997), 94 pp., paper, ISBN 0965274217. LC96-095425. Short memoir of a woman and her biologist husband who lived on Unimak Island for two years and then for two more in Kaktovik in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Sydney Laurence (1865-1940) - Anecdotes, Myths, Opinions: A Collection of Laurence Paintings for Sale | Braarud Fine Art. (LaConner, WA: Braarud Fine Art, 1996), 31 pp., paper, PO Box 717, LaConner, WA 98257. wln98-644872. Essay and 20 color reproductions of paintings by this Alaskan. |
