Index to Back Issues 2019-2021
Volume 1, Number 1
May-June, 2019 Alaska Histtory Magazine
The Alaska Railroad 1902-1923, Yost’s Roadhouse, Addison Powell, All Alaska Sweepstakes, Matanuska Colony Barn, The A-Y-P Expo, and more. Postage paid.
$15.00
This issue features a look at the construction of the Alaska Railroad; a 1918 trip by Margaret Murie, traveling the Valdez to Fairbanks Trail as a 16-year-old girl; Addison Powell’s 1902 adventures in the Copper River Valley, the great All Alaska Sweepstakes sled dog race, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, and the 1935 Matanuska Colony barns. Shorter articles include a photo-feature of snowshoes, a look at a few Alaskan photographers, and brief reviews of a half-dozen classic books on Alaska.
Volume 1, Number 2
July-August, 2019 Alaska History Magazine
Early Bush Pilots, across the Kenai by horseback, The Esquimaux, Alaska Steamship Company, Boyhood in the Nome Gold Camp, Barrett Willoughby, and more. Postage paid.
$15.00
In this issue: the missionaries who blazed trails across territorial Alaska, sharing their various versions and interpretations of God’s Word and building hospitals, schools, and churches which would change Alaska forever. The aviation pioneers who braved Alaskan skies with sketchy flying machines and even sketchier maps of the land below, flinging themselves aloft with fragile contraptions of fabric and wood, also changed Alaska forever. Other articles in this issue explore The Esquimaux: Alaska’s first newspaper, the Alaska Steamship Company, a 1916 horseback trip across the Kenai Peninsula by Frank Carpenter, Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s first commercially successful novelist, and Irving McKenny Reed’s exciting childhood in the gold rush town of Nome.
Volume 1, Number 3
Sept-Oct, 2019 Alaska History Magazine
S.S. Nenana, Rim of Red Water, Josephine Crumrine, J.E. Spurr, Alaska’s Flag, Harriman Alaska Expedition. Postage paid.
$15.00
This issue includes the endearing sled dog artwork of Josephine Crumrine’s menu covers for The Alaska Steamship Company; and the unprecedented luxury cruise of railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman and his carefully selected passenger list of scientists and artists. An excerpt from a book in progress by noted Alaskan author Tim Jones highlights the importance of a key player in Alaska’s history: the sea otter; and the featured article for this issue is the story of the S.S. Nenana, the Last Lady of the River, by Fairbanks writer and historian Patricia De Nardo Schmidt. Other articles in this third issue include the history of Alaska’s flag, and an excerpt from Josiah E. Spurr’s 1896 expedition to map and chart the interior of Alaska for the USGS. His unvarnished descriptions of the Birch Creek Mining District are among the first ever recorded. Wrapping up this issue are brief highlights from half a dozen classic books.
Volume 1, Number 4
Nov-Dec, 2019 Alaska History Magazine
WPA Alaska, Ed S. Orr Stage Company, Matanuska Valley, Woodchopper Roadhouse, Elizabeth Peratrovich, The Kink in the Fortymile River. Postage paid.
$15.00
This issue includes a guidebook to territorial Alaska from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Federal Writers Project; an unusual but little-known earth-moving project on the Fortymile River, notable for the remote location and for the size of the undertaking; the Ed. S. Orr Stage Company, an important part of our past, which proudly claimed “Eight day service between Valdez and Fairbanks, a distance of 364 miles,” and “All stages equipped with an abundance of fur robes and carbon-heated foot warmers;” the Woodchopper Roadhouse, at one time the oldest and largest log structure on the Yukon River between Eagle and Circle City; the story of pioneer Native rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich; the 1898 explorations of Capt. Edwin F. Glenn and W. C. Mendenhall through the Matanuska Valley; pioneering Alaskan artists; color postcards from the turn of the century; a timeline, a 2019 index, and a few classic books.
The original issues are available for $15.00 each, postage paid, or as a 14-issue set for $125.00, postage paid (saves $85 over ordering individually).
Index to Back issues 2019-2021
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