Pictorial Histories - Alaska/ Yukon Books

 


 

Jim Rearden's Alaska -
Fifty Years Of Frontier Adventure
by Jim Rearden

    Jim Rearden, Alaska's most popular outdoor journalist, recounts his search throughout the Far North for interesting people, places and events. Did he ever find them? Rearden combines twenty previously published articles into a "best of collection", interspersed with fresh insights into a changing Alaska. He shares his favorite stories about:

6x9, 287pgs., 25 photos, sb. $17.95  ISBN 1-57510-121-1
 
 

Sam O. White,
Alaskan
Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot
by Jim Rearden

    Sam O. White was a tough, deep voiced, six-foot tall, two hundred pound former Marine, lumberjack and guide. From 1922, for half a century he crisscrossed wild Alaska by foot, with pack horses, dog teams, canoe, riverboat and airplane. He helped map the Territory. He trapped fur. He became the worlds first flying game warden. White wrote exciting tales about his Alaska adventures. Those writings make up the bulk of this volume.
6-1/2x9, 410 pgs., 77 photos,  maps, sb. $23.95  ISBN 978-1-57510-130-9
 
 
 
 

Castner's Cutthroats
SAGA OF THE ALASKA SCOUTS

by Jim Rearden

Exciting tail of the Alsaka Scouts who played a key role in the Aleutian Campaign of World War II

6"x9", 384 pages, 36 photos, sb.$17.95  ISBN 1-57510-084-3
 
 

Frozen Gold
by John A. Gould

Covers the history of hand-mining in the Klondike from the early 1890s
to the early 1900s.

8-1/2"x11", 112 pgs., 3 pgs. of color, many b/w photos, maps and drawings,
sb. full-color cover. $10.95  ISBN 1-57510-082-7
 
 
 

White Pass & Yukon Route

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History - History of the White Pass & Yukon Route in Alaska and Canada.

8-1/2x11, 150 pgs., over 200 photos, sb. $9.95 ISBN 0-933126-08-5
 
 

Soldiers of the Mists Minutemen of the Alaska Frontier

by C.A. Salisbury

The home-grown Minutemen of Alaska have always been a factor in the shaping of Alaska history. This is their story.

8-1/2x11, 152 pgs., 155 photos, sb. $12.95 ISBN 0-929521-38-2
 
 

8.6 The Great Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964

by Stan Cohen

Good Friday, 1964 earthquake in pictures!

8-1/2x11, 140 pgs., over 200 photos, 10 full-color pgs., sb. $12.95 ISBN 0-929521-96-X
 
 

Alcan and Canol

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History of Two Great World War II Construction Projects

8-1/2x11, 272 pgs., 500 photos, maps, sb. $19.95 ISBN 0-929521-50-1
 

Rails Across the Tundra A Historical Album of the Alaska Railroad

by Stan Cohen

The most comprehensive photo history of the Alaska Railroad now in print.

8-1/2x11, 152 pgs., 285 photos, maps, rolling stock drawings, sb. $12.95 ISBN 0-933126-43-3
 
 

Trail of '42

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History of the Alaska Highway

7x10, 112 pgs., 241 photos, sb. $7.95 ISBN 0-933126-21-2
 
 

Highway on the Sea

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History of the Alaska Marine Highway System

A brief history of the ferry system and each of the seven ferries that provide access to isolated Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.

11x8-1/2, 52 pgs., 65 photos, sb. $7.95 ISBN 0-929521-87-0
 
 

Journey to the Koyukuk

The Photos of J.N. Wyman, 1898-99

Wyman's recollection of his 14-month journey into the then uncharted frontier of the Yukon River.

11-8-1/2, 128 pgs., 104 photos, sb $10.95 ISBN 0-933126-99-9
 
 

Make It Pay! Gold Dredge #4

by David Neufeld and Patrick Habiluk

Klondike, Yukon, Canada

History of the world's largest wooden-hulled gold dredge.

11x8-1/2, 152 pgs., 155 photos, sb. $8.95 ISBN 0-929521-38-2
 
 

Gold Rush Gateway

by Stan Cohen

Skagway and Dyea, Alaska

The definitive photographic history of these two gold rush gateway towns.

8-1/2x11, 142 pgs., 241 photos, sb. $9.95 ISBN 0-933126-48-4
 
 

The Great Alaska Pipeline

by Stan Cohen

The largest private construction project in the world-the trans Alaska pipeline stretches some 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. The story of this masterpiece of human perseverance is told here in pictures.

8-1/2x11, 143 pgs., 277 photos, sb. $12.95 ISBN 0-933126-71-9
 
 
 

The Streets Were Paved With Gold

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History of the Klondike Gold Rush-1898-1899

The greatest Gold Rush in North America's history took place in Canada's Yukon Territory. Here is the story in pictures!

8-1/2x11, 212 pgs., 300 photos, maps, sb. $12.95 ISBN 0-933126-03-4
 
 

Yukon River Steamboats

by Stan Cohen

A Pictorial History

No other river on the continent has had such a long and diverse history of steamboating. The author has gathered photos and drawings from archives in the U.S. and Canada into the most complete collection yet published, from the elegant boats of the 1890s to the complete restoration of the "Klondike" that is on display at Whitehorse.

8-1/2x11, 128 pgs., 155 photos, maps, sb. $11.95 ISBN 0-933126-19-0
 
 

A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook

by Stan Cohen with Candy Waugaman's Collection

Movies, Music, Guides, Photographs, Artifacts and Personalities of The Great Klondike Gold Rush 8-1/2x11, 184 pgs., over 60 pgs. of color, hundreds and hundreds of artifacts, movie posters, guides, sheet music, etc. A must for anyone interested in Alaska, Yukon or Klondike history.

sb. $19.95 ISBN 1-57510-014-2
 
 

The Forgotten War Series A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada

by Stan Cohen

The Forgotten War Volume One

8-1/2x11, 272 pgs., over 300 maps and photos, sb. $16.95 ISBN 0-933126-13-1
 


 

The Forgotten War Volume Two

8-1/2x11, 264 pgs., 500 photos and maps, sb. $16.95 ISBN 0-933126-70-0
 

The Forgotten War Volume Three

8-1/2x11, 264 pgs., over 500 photos and maps, sb. $16.95 ISBN 0-929521-30-7
 

The Forgotten War Volume Four

8-1/2x11, 242 pgs., 500 photos and maps, sb. $16.95 ISBN 0-929521-64-1
 
 

Alaska's Wolf Man
Alaska Historical Society Award Winner
"Historian of the Year 1999"

by Jim Rearden

The 1915-55 wilderness adventures of Fran Glaser

6x9", 352 pages, blk.&wht. photos, sb. $17.95 ISBN 1-57510-047-9
 
 

The Alaska Flying Expedition

by Stan Cohen

The U.S. Army's 1920 New York to Nome flight.

8-1/2x11", 120 pages, 150 blk.&wht. photos, sb., $12.95  ISBN 1-57510-041-X
 
 
 
 

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