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...Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we enjoyed go...

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...housand dollars’ worth of sea-otter skins from a Russian trad- ing-post in Alaska, accomplished chiefly through the agency of a barrel of rum manufact...

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...he west. She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled great- ness when other emp...

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...Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel, The Spoilers, was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines fr...

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...ake my place with Mattie Gormer this summer. They’re taking a party out to Alaska next month in their private car, and Mattie, who is the laziest woma... ...lf. The Gormers have both taken a tremendous fancy to you, and the trip to Alaska is—well—the very thing I should want for you just at present.” Miss ... ...l they realize how much they miss you.” MISS BART WENT with the Gormers to Alaska; and the expe- dition, if it did not produce the effect anticipated ... ...npleasant form of continuing to cling to her hosts after their return from Alaska. Little as she was in the key of their milieu, her immense social fa... ... to the W est, whence he came back only to learn that she was starting for Alaska with the Gormers. The revelation of this suddenly-established inti- ...

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...ehind, like a huge net-reel; a tiny maelstrom of activity centred about an Alaska Commercial Company’s steam- boat that would clear for Dawson in the ...

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...ls, and you shall fancy yourself in some untrodden northern territory—Lapland, Labrador, or Alaska. Or, possibly, you arise very early in the morning;...

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...was on every lip in America, from Montreal to the Gulf, from the glaciers of Alaska to the orange groves of Florida; and millions and millions of peop...

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...: The Sleeping Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Alaska c1900 Part I The Wild I The Trail of the Meat D ARK spruce fore...

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...road trip, but then de- cided to invite Jana to go with him on a cruise to Alaska. He was delighted with her ecstatic response. They flew to Vancouver... ...h the pristine beauty of the inside passage and the bays and inlets of the Alaskan coast. They shouted with excitement at the gun-pop- ping noise of g... ...sed his favorite picture of Jana across the table, one he had taken on the Alaska cruise. Richard whistled. “Hey, gorgeous! She could have been a mode...

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...following those of towns, with the usual exceptions, as follows: Ala. La. Alaska Me. Ariz. Mass. Ark. Md. Cal. Mich. Colo. Minn. Conn. Miss. ...

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...-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, they told the story of the building of old San Francisco... ...hange. She lived in New Hampshire. Accordingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska and to the Yosemite Valley, and was now returning leisurely, via the... ...n editorial waste-basket, to chevying Cana- dian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. It is perfectly impossible to go to war with these people, wha...

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... tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.” “That’s because you’re not a fool, I suppose,” said Hal. “All ... ...s reputation was made, and from that day his name spread through every camp in Alaska. Later on, in the fall of the year, he saved John Thornton’s lif... ... per haps, but one that put his name many notches higher on the totem pole of Alaskan fame. This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men...

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...rge house and proceeded to spend. Porportuk was known as the richest Indian in Alaska. Klakee Nah was known as the whitest. Porportuk was a money lend... .... But we will return. I have seen much of the world, and there is no land like Alaska, no sun like our sun, and the snow is good after the long summer...

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...ng to the environment between these two candidates is what we should do in Alaska on the Arctic National Refuge Plain (19). George W. Bush has stated ... ...n Jettmar, who works as a backwoods guide based in Anchorage, has lived in Alaska for 27 years (Behr 19). She tells a story of how she has stood alone... ...ndscape is just so big and amazing,” she states (Behr 19). With so much of Alaska’s coast already cleared for oil de- velopment, why can’t this one pi...

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...ng. We are dealing here with a continu- ous area of land which is, leaving Alaska out of account alto- gether, equal to Great Britain, France, the Ger...