Interpreting Alaska's History Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
	Alaskan History: A Perspective	7
1	Alaskan and North American Geography: from Alfred H. Brooks' Blazing Alaska's Trails	19
2	Russia Moves to the East: from George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce, Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750	44
3	Alaska's Boundaries: from Stuart Tompkins, "Drawing the Alaskan Boundary," Canadian Historical Review	58
4	Aleuts and Russians: Lydia Black, "Ivan Pan'kov: Architect of Aleut Literacy," Arctic Anthropology	85
5	Colonial Russian America: from James R. Gibson, "Colonial Russian America," in Russia's American Colony	110
6	Russia Sells Alaska: from Ronald Jensen, The Alaska Purchase and Russian-American Relations	122
7	Buying Alaska: The Myth of Icebergia: Richard Welch, "American Public Opinion and the Purchase of Russian America," American Slavic and East European Review	141
8	Missionaries, Indians and Politics: Ted C. Hinckley, "The Early Alaskan Ministry of S. Hall Young, 1878-1888," Journal of Presbyterian History	158
9	"Klondicitis:" Seattle and the Rush North: from Pierre Berton, Klondike Fever	180
10	Shaking the Big Stick: TR and the Alaska Boundary Thomas A. Bailey, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Alaska Boundary Settlement," Canadian Historical Review	194
11	Writing Alaskan: from William R. Hunt, North of [actual symbol not reproducible] The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914	204
12	Cross-Cultural Contact in the Wilderness: William Schneider, "Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron: A Story of Who Controls the Bacon," Alaska History	217
13	National Politics and Alaska: Herman Slotnick, "The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy in Alaska," Journal of the West	233
14	The Urban Frontier in the North: William H. Wilson, "The Founding of Anchorage: Federal Town Building on the Last Frontier," Pacific Northwest Quarterly	247
15	Touring Alaska: Frank Norris, "Showing Off Alaska: The Northern Tourist Trade, 1878-1941," Alaska History	270
16	Racism, Indians and Territorial Politics: Stephen Haycox, "William Paul and the Alaska Voters' Literacy Act of 1925," Alaska History	288
17	Political Issues of the 1920s: from Mary C. Mangusso, Anthony J. Dimond	311
18	Planting Alaska: James Shortridge, "The Alaska Agricultural Empire: An American Agrarian Vision, 1898-1929," Pacific Northwest Quarterly	333
19	The Alaskan I.R.A.: Kenneth Philp, "The New Deal and Alaskan Natives, 1936-1945," Pacific Historical Review	358
20	Dr. Alaska: Ernest Gruening: Claus-M. Naske, "Governor Ernest Gruening's Struggle for Territorial Status-Personal or Political?" Journal of the West	378
21	King Salmon: from James A. Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo, The Pacific Salmon Fisheries: A Study of Irrational Conservation	393
22	The Role of the Alaska Highway: M. V. Bezeau, "The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway," in The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium	402
23	Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii: John S. Whitehead, "The Singular Event and the Everyday Routine: The Interplay of History and Culture in the Shaping of Memory," Oral History Review	415
24	The Wilderness and Alaska: Morgan Sherwood, "The End of American Wilderness," Environmental Review	435
25	History as History: Terrence Cole, "The History of a History: The Making of Jeannette Paddock Nichols's Alaska," Pacific Northwest Quarterly	451