Source:
AN ABRIDGED
HISTORY OF ALASKA
By
John W. Brown
A Lawyer of the Seattle Bar, Seattle, U. S. A.
Copyright by John W. Brown
May, A. D. 1909
Published by the author, May 1909,
at Seattle, Washington
Press of GateWay Printing co.
91 pages

 

CONTENTS

DIVISION I.	The Pacific Coast of Alaska From Seattle to Dixon Entrance	8
	- Vancouver Island	11
	- Queen Charlotte Island	13
	- Whale  - Fur Trader	14
	- Natives  - Prince Rupert	15
	- The Alaska Boundary Line	17
	- From Dixon Entrance to Cook's Inlet  - Ketchikan	18
	- Metlakahtla	19
	- Rivallagigedo Island and Surrounding Country	20
	- Prince of Wales Island	21
	- Wrangell and Vicinity	23
	- The Juneau Gold Belt  - Treadwell	26
	- Juneau  - Lynn Canal	28
	- Fort William H. Seward  - The Chilkoot Trail	29
	- Sitka	34
	- Cross Sound  - Mt. St. Elias	37
	- Glaciers  - Yakutat	39
	- Katalla  - Prince William Sound	41
	- Valdez  - Seward  - Railroads	43
	- Cook's Inlet	44
	- Indians Between Dixon Entrance and Cook's Inlet	45
	- "The Indian Tribes of the North Pacific Coast	47
	- Indian Religion	50
	- Burial  - Marriages	52
	- Slavery  - Canoes	53
	- Shamen, Music, Sons and Dances  - Potlach	54
	- Totems	55
	- Indian Baskets	59
	- Indians	61
	- Fish and Fur  - Light Houses and Aids to Navigation  - Timber	62
	- Agriculture on the Coast Between Dixon Entrance and Cooks Inlet	63
	- Alaska Cable	64
DIVISION II -	The Aleutian Islands and Coasts of Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean from Cooks Inlet to Point Barrow.
	- First, The Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands	65
	- The Building of the Coast Mountains of Alaska	67
	- The Northern Coast  - Pribilof Islands	69
	- Islands of Bering Sea	72
	- The Northwest Passage	74
	- The Scheme of the Western Union Telegraph Company  - Origin and Extent of the Esquimaux	77
	- Aurora Borealis in Alaska	80
	- Wireless Telegraphy	85
	- Seward Peninsula	86
	- List of comparisons of native dialects	88
DIVISION III -	The Great Interior of Alaska	89
	- The Yukon  - The Koyukuk  - The Kuskokwim	89
	- Chandalar River  - Porcupine River  - Innoko River  - Tanana	90
	- Fort Yukon	91
INDEX		92 - 96

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