An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments x Introduction xi Alaska History: An Outline xvii Finding America Raymond H. Fisher 3 Russian Dependence on the Natives of Alaska James R. Gibson 21 Ivan Pan'kov: Architect of Aleut Literacy Lydia T. Black 43 Astor and Baranov: Partners in Empire James P. Ronda 66 Two Missions to Alaska Richard L. Dauenhauer 76 The Sale of Alaska in the Context of Russian American Relations in the Nineteenth Century Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov 89 v vi Contents American Public Opinion and the Purchase of Russian America Richard E. Welch, jr. 102 "Hemmed In": Reactions in British Columbia to the Purchase of Russian America Richard E. Neunherz 118 The Early Ministry of S. Hall Young, 1878-1888 Ted C. Hinckley 134 Female Native Teachers in Southeast Alaska: Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard Victoria Wyatt 156 Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron: A Story of Who Controls the Bacon William Schneider 176 Controlling the Periphery: The Territorial Administration of the Yukon-Alaska, 1867-1959 Ken Coates 191 Gold Rushers North: A Census Study of the Yukon and Alaska Gold Rushes, 1896-1900 james H. Ducker 206 Sourdough Radicalism: Labor and Socialism in Alaska, 1905-1920 joseph Sullivan 222 The Pacific Salmon Fisheries: A Study of Irrational Conservation james A. Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo 238 Anthony J. Dimond and the Politics of Integrity Mary Childers Mangusso 246 Contents The New Deal and Alaskan Natives, 1936-1945 Kenneth R. Philp 267 Governor Ernest Gruening's Struggle for Territorial Status: Personal or Political? C/aus-M. Naske 287 The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway M. V. Bezeau 301 Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 Terrence M. Cole 314 Economic Development and Indian Land Rights in Modern Alaska: The 1947 Tongass Timber Act Stephen W. Haycox 336 The Governor Who Opposed Statehood: The Legacy ofJay Hammond John Whitehead 364 Project Chariot: Alaskan Roots of Environmentalism Peter Coates 378 Corruption: Alaska Size John Strohmeyer 407 The End of Wilderness Morgan Sherwood 433 vii ...