Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land by Walter R. Borneman
Harper Perennial | January 20, 2004 | English | ISBN: 0060503076 | 640 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom.
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