headquarters, the military trail starting from that point to the interior. The Valdez Prospector, 5185, the first newspaper in that region, was established in February, 1902. Military trails afforded access to the Copper River, and a large number of prospectors entered central Alaska along their lines. The promise of the all-American road induced prospectors from Circle City to cross the mountains westward to the Tanana slope. One of the latter, Felix Pedro, discovered the Fairbanks gold fields in 1902, and the next spring a horde of people came into that camp. The Fairbanks News, 5076, was issued on September 19, 1903, the first printed paper in the Tanana country. After that date Alaska newspaper ventures were as thick as leaves in an autumn forest, though only about 30 of the 227 established in Alaska now survive.

17. The Yukon Territory

A large majority of the Klondike prospectors came from the United States, and most of those who were not immediately successful on the Dawson creeks came on down the Yukon river to Eagle or Circle and began prospecting in Alaska. When the Fairbanks creeks and others in that region were located, there was a large stampede from Dawson into Alaska. The Yukon territory was more closely connected, geographically and socially by this moving population with Alaska than it was with any of the Canadian provinces. Under the mining laws citizens of the United States were permitted to locate mining claims in the Yukon Territory, and citizens of Canada in Alaska, and since they had a common ancestry and language, there was a unity of fellowship between them. In every camp of the Arctic Brotherhood in both Territories, their national flags were intertwined on the walls, and their one motto was: "There is no boundary line here." 3202-3226. Because of this intimate connection as prospectors and Arctic Brothers in the earlier and later camps, and their common historical interest in the happenings of both, the common bibliography of the Yukon river, 6718-6751, and the Yukon Territory, 6752-6808, have been included with that of Alaska. No one has better expressed the romance of this cosmopolitan mining population than Robert W. Service, the poet of the Yukon basin, 6790-6798, though he was a resident of Dawson, Yukon Territory, and not Alaska.

An orderly government under the Constitution of the United States has now been organized by the people in the Territory of Alaska, and just laws, enacted by our own elected representatives, are enforced equally upon all our citizens. Settlements are being extended to all parts of the Territory, and its great natural resources developed by our educated type of mankind. The printing press is found at work in every town; libraries are supported by law, and common schools in every settlement. A system of public high schools, and the

Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, at Fairbanks, invite our children to higher educational advantages within the Territory. Roads, railroads, and the aeroplane are bringing the most distant settlements together, while a fleet of steamships follow our coast lines and carry passengers, freight and mails to every Alaskan port. Cables, telegraph lines, the wireless and the radio, bring us the news of the world, its music and the latest market reports, every hour.

Fishing, mining and agriculture are flourishing. Our population is increasing. Our homes are made happier by a constant supply of good books. Some of these are now being printed on Alaskan presses, while the public mails bring the latest editions of the best literary, religious and scientific works, and general periodicals, the next week after they are turned off the eastern presses.

This compilation was prepared for the purpose of bringing together, under one systematic arrangement, and thereby preserving the printed record of the labors of all those who have heretofore engaged in discovering and developing the lands and resources of Alaska, and establishing here that civilization of which we are so proud to be a part. We hope its governmental, educational and material growth will continue in freedom until Alaska shall become one of the sovereign States in the American Union, and thenceforth forever.

James Wickurham

Juneau, August 24, 1927.

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS RELATING

TO ALASKA

(Not including Public Documents)

1724-1924

(The figures invariably refer to the number of the item or title,
and never to the page)

A

ADVENTURE

1-Akers, Floyd. The boy fortune hunters in Alaska. 271 pp. Chicago, The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908.

2-Anderson, Isabel W. P. Odd Corners. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1917. (pp. 110-124: The Fringe of Alaska.)

3-Back, H. S. Yes Bay, Alaska. Hunter-Trader-Trapper, v. 14, 1907, April, pp. 21-22.

4-Back, H. S. The Two Gold Hunters. (Yukon country). HunterTrader-Trapper, v. 14, 1907, June, pp. 49-51; July, pp. 86-87; Aug., pp. 21-23; Sept., pp. 85-87; v. 15, 1907, Nov., pp. 34-36.

5-Ball, George H. The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns. Wide World M., v. 23, 1909, June, pp. 160-163.

6—Ballard, A. M. Sailing of the fleet. Collier's, v. 51, 1913, Sept. 13, p. 25.

7—Bean, Tarleton H. A naturalist's adventures. Kersting, R., ed.: The White World, pp. 241-266.

8-Bennett, Alfred E. Captain Wm. H. Royden's adventure. Wide World, v. 25, 1910, June, pp. 107-110.

9-Bermingham, C. H. The capture of Smith. Wide World M., v. 28, 1911, Nov., pp. 153-157.

10-Cameron, Charlotte. A cheechako in Alaska and Yukon

with a

map and 36 ilustrations. 291 pp., London, T. F. Unwin, ltd., 1920.— Am. ed., F. A. Stokes & Co., 1920.

11-Carpenter, Herman M. Three years in Alaska. 105 pp., Philadelphia, The Howard co., 1901.

12-Casson, Herbert N. The call of gold. Munsey, v. 39, 1908, July, pp. 457-461.

13-Castle, C. E. To Alaska on a houseboat. Field & Str., v. 5, 1899, Nov., pp. 297-300.

14—Catton, George L. The years between. Adventure, 1916, April, pp. 187-193.

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15-Catton, George L. Under the skin. Adventure, 1916, May, pp. 83-92. Cody, Hiram A. On trail and rapid by dog-sled and canoe. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1911.

17-Cotten, Bruce. An adventure in Alaska during the gold excitement of 1897-1898. (A personal experience.) 107 pp., Baltimore, The Sun printing office, 1922.

18 Cowie, Isaac. Lost in the Arctic night. Outing, v. 47, 1906, Jan., pp. 419-421.

19

Cutler, William G. A summer in Alaskan waters. Mag. of Travel, 1895, Jan., pp. 41-51.

20-Dankoler, Harry E. ... James Griffin's adventures in Alaska, by Harry Dee (pseud.), with sixteen full-page halftone illustrations. 276 pp., Milwaukee, Wis., J. H. Yewdale and sons co., 1903. 21-Deffenbaugh, Walter. Emulating the Siwash. Alaska-Yukon M., v. 11, 1911, June, pp. 46-50.

22—Downie, William. Hunting for gold; reminiscences (!) of personal experience and research in the early days of the Pacific coast from Alaska to Panama. 407 pp. San Francisco, Cal., Press of the California publishing co., 1893.

23-Du Puy, William A. Discounting adventure. The World Today, 1908, Oct., pp. 1005-1012.

24-Eggleston, Edward. ... Stories of American life and adventure; third reader grade. 214 pp. New York, Cincinnati, etc. American book company. 1895. Adventures in Alaska, pp. 207-214.

25-Farewell, G. E. Heroism of the Alsek. Sunset M., v. 22, 1909, May, pp. 531-536.

25a-Fletcher, A. L. Boy Scouts in Alaska. Chicago, 1913.

26—Fraser, J. D. The gold fever, or two years in Alaska. San Francisco, 1923. 100 pp.

27-Garland, Hamlin. Trampers on the trail. Cosmopolitan, v. 26, 1899, March, pp. 515-522.

28-Geffry, M. Les Aventures du Capitaine Risque-tout en Alaska. Paris, n. d.

29-Gordon, George B. Explorations in Alaska. Br. Assoc. A. S. Winnipeg meeting, 1909. Pro. Br. Assoc. A. S.

30-Gove, David. Cast away in Siberia. (Account of an Alaskan trading expedition.) Wide World M., v. 28, 1911, Dec., pp. 179-191.

31-Grinnell, Joseph. Gold hunting in Alaska as told by Joseph Grinnell. Ed. by Elizabeth Grinnell. 96 pp. Elgin, Ill., Chicago, David C. Cook publishing company. 1901.

32-Hall, James A. Starving on a bed of gold; or, The world's longest fast. 149 pp. Santa Cruz, Cal., Press of the Sentinel, 1909. 33-Hornsby, John Allan. A fight with Alaskan wolves. Sunday M., 1906, May 6, p. 8.

34—Irving, Washington. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. 2 vols. Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. 2nd ed. 1861.

35-Jackson, H. C. In peril in the wilderness. Wide World M., v. 30, 1913, Mar., pp. 477-488.

36-Keener, E. Kirby. "Lost Hope". Alaska-Yukon M., v. 4, 1908, Feb., pp. 487-494.

37—Keener, E. Kirby. The Chechakos. Adventure, v. 8, 1914, Oct., pp. 57-62.

38-Keener, E. Kirby. That Malaskootna glacier episode. Adventure, v. 11, 1915, Dec., pp. 92-99.

39-Kilbourne, Charles E. An army boy in Alaska. Illustrated by R. L. Boyer. 346 pp. Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company, 1915. 40-Laut, A .C. The discoverer of Alaska (Chirikoff). Leslie's M., v. 59, 1905, Feb., pp. 363-375, Mar., pp. 513-524.

41-Laut, A. C. The outlaw hunters of Russia. Outing, v. 46, 1905, Sept., pp. 653-662.

42-Laut, A. C. The sea-otter hunters. Outing, v. 47, 1905, Nov., pp. 212-217.

(Captain Cook.)

43-Laut, A. C. Vikings of the Pacific. Leslie's v. 60, 1905, May, pp. 12-23. 44—Laut, A. C. Vikings of the Pacific; the adventures of the explorers who came from the West, eastward; Bering, the Dane; the outlaw hunters of Russia; Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and Vancouver, the English navigators; Gray of Boston, the discoverer of the Columbia; Drake, Ledyard, and other soldiers of fortune on the west coast of America. 349 pp. New York, London, The Macmillan company, 1905.

45-Laut, A. C. Benyowsky-pirate of the Pacific. Outing, v. 47, 1905, Dec., pp. 311-321.

46-Laut, A. C. Sea voyages of the Northern Ocean. Harper's, v. 112, 1906, Jan., pp. 291-298.

47-Lee, Jack. A hunter's story of the Klondike. Outdoor Life, v. 24, 1909, Nov., pp. 465-477.