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Title |
Ten thousand miles with a dog sled : a narrative of winter travel in interior Alaska / by Hudson Stuck, D.D., F.R.G.S., archdeacon of the Yukon. |
Author |
Stuck, Hudson, 1863-1920. |
Object Name |
Book |
Call# |
HHR 917.9 Stuck, H. |
Additional title data |
10,000 miles with a dog sled |
Subjects |
Stuck, Hudson 1863-1920 -- Biography Dogsledding Travel Alaska |
Summary |
Fold-out color map on back endpaper. Fairbanks to the Chandalar through Circle City and Fort Yukon -- Chandalar Village to Bettles, Coldfoot, and the Koyukuk -- Bettles to the Pacific - The Alatna, Kobuk Portage, Kobuk Village, Kotzebue Sound -- The Seward Peninsula - Candle Creek, Council, and Nome -- Nome to Fairbanks - Norton Sound - The Kaltag Portage - Nulato - Up the Yukon to Tanana -- The "first ice" - An autumn adventure on the Koyukuk -- The Koyukuk to the Yukon and to Tanana - Christmas holidays at Saint John's-in-the-Wilderness -- Up the Yukon to Rampart and across country to the Tanana - Alaskan agriculture - The good dog Nanook -- Miss Farthing's boys at Nenana - Chena and Fairbanks -- Tanana Crossing to Fortymile and down the Yukon - A patriarchal chief - Swarming caribou - Eagle and Fort Egbert - Circle City and Fort Yukon -- From the Tanana River to the Kuskokwim - Thence to the Iditerod Mining Camp - Thence to the Yukon, and up that river to Fort Yukon -- The natives of Alaska -- Photography in the Arctic -- The Northern Lights -- The Alaskan dogs. "Though born and raised in England, explorer Hudson Stuck (1865-1920) epitomized the adventurous New World spirit of the American West at its closing. Drawn by the wide-open spaces, Stuck, an Episcopal priest and champion of 'muscular Christianity,' volunteered in 1904 to serve as the archdeacon of the Yukon; his spiritual domain encompassed 250,000 square miles of interior Alaska. In this dramatic 1914 work, Stuck draws upon his eight years of continuous travels in this 'great, wild country' to paint an exhilarating portrait of a rugged land and the people who lived there. This is no mild tale of priestly ministering or zealous missionary work -- Stuck all but eschews discussion of his actual work to regale us with tales of the 'gentle aboriginal population' and 'some of the hardiest and most adventurous white men in the world,' and warns against 'low-down whites' with no respect for native culture or the sanctity of the land. With this beautiful and untamed land again threatened by encroaching development, this century-old book remains a fresh and vital read." -- Goodreads. |
Published Date |
1914 |
Catalog Number |
2018.190 |