In darkest Alaska : travel and empire along the Inside Passage

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Label

In darkest Alaska : travel and empire along the Inside Passage

Title remainder

travel and empire along the Inside Passage

Statement of responsibility

Robert Campbell

Creator

• Campbell, Robert, (Robert Bruce)

Subject

• Alaska
• Alaska -- Description and travel
• Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959
• Alaska -- In literature
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
• History
• Inside Passage -- Description and travel
• Literature
• North America -- Inside Passage
• Tourism
• Tourism -- Alaska -- 19th century
• Tourism -- Inside Passage -- 19th century
• Travel
• 1800-1959

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famousincluding wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curtisand the long forgottena gay ex-sailor, a former society reporter, an African explorer, and a neurasthenic Methodist ministerreturned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States. In Darkest Alaskaexplores the popular images conjured by these travelers' tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. Drawing on lively firsthand accounts, archival photographs, maps, and other ephemera of the day, historian Robert Campbell chronicles how Gilded Age sightseers were inspired by Alaska's bounty of evolutionary treasures, tribal artifacts, geological riches, and novel thrills to produce a wealth of highly imaginative reportage about the territory. By portraying the territory as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest, tourists helped pave the way for settlement and exploitation

Member of

• Nature and culture in America

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Nature and culture in America