| | Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850 1950 |  | Author: Ed Ferrell
Publisher: Heritage Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7034899
Media: Paperback
Pages: 353
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0788400878
Dewey Decimal Number: 920.0798
EAN: 9780788400872
ASIN: 0788400878
Publication Date: February 1996
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Product Description
This work fills a void by making obscure and unindexed material available to researchers in Alaskan and Canadian history and genealogy. It is rich in Northwest history, and should appeal to researchers in the West and Northwest whose ancestors may have been Alaska-Yukon immigrants. Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco were points of departure and return; some of the immigrants settled in those regions after trying their luck on the frontier. The majority of these early Alaskans came to the Territory between 1880 and 1910. The primary sources used for this compilation were newspaper obituaries and magazine articles.
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Disappointed in coverage December 6, 2007
This book contains brief (less than one page average) biographies of 396 people. Not one of them was a pioneer documented in the 1895 Yukon Order of Pioneers, 40 Mile photograph. Not one of them was in the photograph of Yukon River traders taken about 1885 at St. Michael.
The sources cited are mostly Alaska newspapers and magazines, and mainly obituaries or biographical puff pieces. References to the original articles are cited, but there is no indication of whether or how much the author has edited them.
The book has no index or table of contents.
This review applies to ISBN0788400878. The copy I looked at was published in 1984. There are other editions of the same title out there, one labeled "Volume 5". The publishers web site also lists Vol 2 and Vol 4, but they are not available. It's not clear if these volumes include new names.
If you expect to find your pioneer in these books, you are liable to be disappointed.
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