An edition of Across widest America: Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering coast
(1905)
Across Widest America
Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering coast
by Devine, E. J.
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Across Widest America: Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering coast
1906, Benziger Brothers
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Across widest America: Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering coast
1905, Canadian messenger
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CHAPTERS
I. Newfoundland — Orders for Alaska — The Journey begins 1
II. Towards the West — Manitoba and its Wheat-fields 28
III. The Western Prairies — Cattle and Cowboys 49
IV. Through the Rockies — Resources of British Columbia 66
V. Seattle — Over the Pacific — The Aleutian Islands 83
VI. The Russian Domination in Alaska 101
VII. Failure of Russian Enterprise — Transfer of the Territory 123
VIII. The Bering Coast — Placer Mining — A Trip to the Arctic 141
IX. Council Mining Camp — The Life of an Inland Miner 169
X. The Autumn Exodus — Preparing for Winter on the Bering Coast 178
XI. Winter Isolation in Alaska — The Great White Silence 195
XII. The Alaskan Mail — Social Life in a Mining Camp 211
XIII. The Aboriginal Tribes of Alaska — History and Customs 224
XIV. Religion in Alaska — Missionary Work and Its Results 253
XV. Last Year on the Bering Coast — Homeward Bound 282
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Narrows — Entrance to the Harbor of St. John's Newfoundland — St. John's, Newfoundland Page 16
A Newfoundland Landscape " 32
A Scene on the Canadian Prairies. — A Vista in the Rocky Mountains " 48
Alaska Building, Seattle " 64
The "SS. Roanoke" — Nome, on the Bering Coast " 80
The Two Extremes of America: Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska " 96
Council Mining Camp, on the Neukluk River. — Chinik, on Golovin Bay " 112
The Sphinx of Ophir. — An Ophir Creek Miner " 128
Prospector "panning" for Gold. — Panning for Gold in Winter " 144
Sluicing in the Neighborhood of Nome. — Miners enjoying a Friendly Game " 160
An Autumn Sunset in Northwestern Alaska. — Summer Travelling in the Interior " 176
"Inside" for the Winter. — The Midday Sun on the Shortest Day; a Miner's Cabin " 192
Illustrations
Midnight in June — Arrival of the First Spring Steamer. — Nome, during the Great White Silence " 208
Rocking for Gold in Beach Sands at Nome. — The Bering Coast in Winter " 224
The Author's Cabin, Summer View. — The Cabin, after a Blizzard " 240
Captain Pate, U. S. Mail, and the Author on their Way to the Bering Coast " 256
Eskimo in Waterproof "Kamleika" " 262
Eskimo Girls in Summer Costume " 266
Eskimo Maiden in Winter Parkeh " 272
Snake River, Nome. — Eskimos Selling Curios, Nome " 278
Alaska Totem Poles. — An Eskimo Igloo 282
Eskimo Graves on the Arctic Coast. — Eskimo Native in his Kaiak " 288
The Cliff-Dwellers, King Island, Bering Strait — The Mahlamutes, the most Westerly Tribe in America " 292
Miners flocking into Nome. — Leaving Nome for the "Outside," Homeward Bound " 300
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