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• Title:A trip to Alaska : a narrative of what was seen and heard during a summer cruise in Alaskan waters / by George Wardman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wardman, George, 1838- author.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco : Samuel Carson & Co. ; Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1884.
  Boston : C.J. Peters & Son, Electrotypers.
  ©1884
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F5908 .W26
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alaska--Description and travel.
  
• Description:2 preliminary leaves, 237 pages ; 19 cm
  
• Series:History of the Pacific Northwest, PNW ; no. 311, Research Publications, Inc. Microfilm, Reel 29.
  
• Summary:Account of the author's passage on U.S.S. Rush, 1879, during the U.S. Treasury Dept.'s regular revenue cruise to patrol the Aleutian waters and Bering Sea. Includes description of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands and the sealing activities, and of the west Alaskan communities and natives. (A.B. 19122).
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Contents:San Francisco to Nanaimo
  It rains
  Following Vancouver's wake
  Canoes and carved poles
  Wrangel and Sitka
  Sitka and Kadiak
  Kadiak
  Shumagin Islands
  Onalaska's shore
  Sealskin saques
  Communisitic
  Fur west
  Islands, rocks, and mummies
  Our Arctic relations
  St. Michael's and the Yukon
  Killing the white whale
  Superstitions
  Dogs and drivers
  Products of the Yukon region
  Summer crop of seals
  Aleut courtship and marriage
  Fated polar cruiser
  t Wreck
  Conclusion.