Alaska
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches - and ever present are new people with competing views over how these resources should be used. russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how is the land to be used an…
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- Full title :Alaska / Walter R. Borneman.
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The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches - and ever present are new people with competing views over how these resources should be used. russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how is the land to be used and by whom.
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- Publication Date:2003.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harper Collins
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:608 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0060503068, 9780060503062
- oclc:on1317106278
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