Nome Nuggets
Title | Nome Nuggets PDF eBook |
Author | Leigh Hill French |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN |
Report to the Secretary of the Interior
Title | Report to the Secretary of the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | Alaska. Governor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN |
Annual Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior
Title | Annual Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | Alaska. Governor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN |
Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior
Title | Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | Alaska. Governor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 742 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN |
Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
Title | Annual Report of the Department of the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Interior |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 964 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Public lands |
ISBN |
Empire's Edge
Title | Empire's Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Preston Jones |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1889963895 |
In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
A Global History of Gold Rushes
Title | A Global History of Gold Rushes PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Mountford |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520967585 |
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.