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Where did the reindeer come from? : Alaska experience, the first fifty years Cover Image Book Book

Where did the reindeer come from? : Alaska experience, the first fifty years

Postell, Alice 1910- (author.).

Summary: This history of the introduction of reindeer from Siberia to Alaska (mainly northwest and southwest Alaska) in the early 1900s includes accounts of the progress in domesticating the herds and establishing a reindeer products industry, as well as the use of the animals in hauling sleds, and an account of the work of Sheldon Jackson who brought the first animals to the state.

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  • ISBN: 9780962609008
  • ISBN: 0962609005
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 116 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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  • Publisher: Portland, Or. : Amaknak Press, ©1990.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) and index.

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Subject: Jackson, Sheldon 1834-1909
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