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Memories of old Sunrise : gold mining on Alaska's Turnagain Arm  Cover Image Book Book

Memories of old Sunrise : gold mining on Alaska's Turnagain Arm

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  • ISBN: 9781467577601
  • ISBN: 146757760X
  • Physical Description: xxii, 104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Anchorage, Alaska : Cook Inlet Historical Society, ©2013, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
In this second edition, the photograph credits throughout the text have been updated to reflect changes in name for several libraries and museums in Anchorage, Juneau, and Seward, Alaska. -- T.p. verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Photographs and maps -- Foreword by Robert J. Morgan -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Rolf G. Buzzell -- Foreward to second printing -- Gold fever and a journey up the Susitna [1897] -- Prospecting on Resurrection and Bird Creeks -- Prospecting the Sixmile Drainage -- Mining at Lynx Creek -- Winding up the first season -- The second season at Lynx Creek [1898] -- Wintering over in Sunrise [1898-1899] -- Mining with "Mage" and "Bob" [1899-1900] -- A winter hunting trip with Charley York [1900] -- The last season on Turnagain Arm [1901] -- Where have all the "Old-timers" gone? -- Old friends and memories of years gone by.
Subject: n-us-ak
Gold miners Alaska Turnagain Arm Region Biography
Gold mines and mining Alaska Turnagain Arm Region History
Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Turnagain Arm Region
Alaska History 1867-1959
Sunrise (Alaska) History 1867-1959
Turnagain Arm Region (Alaska) History 1867-1959
Morgan, A. W. (Albert Weldon) 1868-1964
Frontier and pioneer life
Gold miners
Gold mines and mining
Alaska
Alaska Sunrise
Alaska Turnagain Arm Region
Genre: Biography.
History.

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Homer Public Library AK 979.803 MOR (Text) 000146061 Alaskana -- Nonfiction Available -


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