Yukon
434 pages, 6 x 9
100 b&w photographs and maps
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1993
ISBN:9780774804417
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last
Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian
Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological
frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the
Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has
changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders,
trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers,
steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon,
bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains
virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian
Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological
frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the
Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has
changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders,
trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers,
steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon,
bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains
virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
Melody Webb, who spent time in the Yukon wildernessbefore writing this book, is the assistant superintendent of TetonNational Park.
List of Maps
Preface to the Bison Book Edition
Introduction
1. The Yukon: A Setting for Successive Frontiers
2. The Russian and English Frontiers
3. The Trader's Frontier
4. The Early Miner's Frontier: Fortymile and Circle
5. The Explorer's Frontier
6. The Klondike Frontier
7. The Soldier's Frontier
8. The Missionary's and Settler's Frontier
9. The Transportation Frontier: Riverways
10. The Transportation Frontier: Trails and Roads
11. The Transportation Frontier: Railways, Highways, Airways
12. The Twentieth-Century Miner's Frontier
13. The Enduring Frontier
Notes
Bibliography
Index
