Alaska: An Empire in the Making

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Binder's copy. Boards loose from text block, two owner bookplates on front endpapers, light stain on top edge of first two pages. 1913 Hard Cover. xvi, [12], 440 pp. Includes fold-out map, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and plates (48 total). A history of Alaska and its wilderness. Arctic Bibliography 18189: "Contains description of Southeast, South Alaska and the Yukon Valley; routes to the Yukon Valley; routes to the Yukon gold fields, the hunting and game animals, fishing industry and sport, transportation and communication, climate, mining, reindeer and sealing industries, fur trade, missions, education, dogs, volcanoes, history, and modern exploration.