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Format: 1 online resource : , 39 illus.

ISBN: 9780812201529

Series Statement: Nature and Culture in America

Content: Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curtis—and the long forgotten—a gay ex-sailor, a former society reporter, an African explorer, and a neurasthenic Methodist minister—returned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States.In Darkest Alaska explores the popular images conjured by these travelers' tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. Drawing on lively firsthand accounts, archival photographs, maps, and other ephemera of the day, historian Robert Campbell chronicles how Gilded Age sightseers were inspired by Alaska's bounty of evolutionary treasures, tribal artifacts, geological riches, and novel thrills to produce a wealth of highly imaginative reportage about the territory. By portraying the territory as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest, tourists helped pave the way for settlement and exploitation.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Prologue. Voyage to Brobdingnag -- , Introduction -- , Chapter One. Continental Drift -- , Chapter Two. Alaska with Appleton’s, Canada by Baedeker’s -- , Chapter Three. Scenic Bonanza -- , Chapter Four. Frontier Commerce -- , Chapter Five. Totem and Taboo -- , Chapter Six. Juneau’s Industrial Sublime -- , Chapter Seven. Orogenous Zones -- , Conclusion -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9780812201529

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201529

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Format: 1 online resource (357 pages)

ISBN: 9780812201529

Series Statement: Nature and Culture in America Ser

Content: Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, travelers returned from Alaska's Inside Passage with fascinating accounts of its wonders. Historian Robert Campbell demonstrates how these tourists served as shock troops of the gold rush by portraying Alaska as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest.

Content: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue: Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Continental Drift -- Chapter 2. Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Chapter 3. Scenic Bonanza -- Chapter 4. Frontier Commerce -- Chapter 5. Totem and Taboo -- Chapter 6. Juneau's Industrial Sublime -- Chapter 7. Orogenous Zones: Glaciers and the Geologies of Empire -- Conclusion: Inside Passage -- Epilogue: Out of Alaska -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812220483

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812220483

Language: English

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