1 comments about Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 1.

1. 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.

No comments about Interpreting Alaska's History: An Anthology.

No comments about Historic Alaska - A Collection of 31 Books Relating to 18th and 19th Century Alaska History, Genealogies and Its People.

No comments about From Norway to the Klondike: The Adventurous and Independent Life of Georgine B. Sonsteby.

No comments about Alaska sources : a guide to historical records and information resources.

No comments about A Step Back Into Old Auke Bay: A Book By Judith Maier's Fifth Grade Class, Auke Bay School..

1 comments about One Man's Gold Rush: A Klondike Album.

1. This is a wonderful introduction to the gold rush. Murray Morgan does a superb job compiling facts with what was viewed by the photographer, E. A. Hegg. It is a basic pictoral history of the events that Hegg witnessed. I particularly favored the chapter on Chilkoot Pass.

No comments about Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood (American Histories of the Frontier Series).

2 comments about Northern Lights: Tales of Alaska's Lighthouses and Their Keepers.

1. No one realizes how long a year is untill you have spent one on Cape Hinchenbrook.Try it at 18 years of age,however CHIEF Jackson went back for a second tour and maybe more.Four men eating from a large number 10 can of vegtables, the same can goes on forever.I often wonder what happened to the hundreds of V disc,the goverment sent us .The book,the book is good easy reading,well written and a trip back in time.My story begins on page 55.If you have any intrest in Lighthouses Buy or rent this coffie table book.signed Charles L.Umpstead a 1948 Hinchenbrook suvivor USCG retiredC.L.Umpstead



2. My grandfather, John DeMan, born in Holland, was enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and stationed at one of the lighthouses in Southeast Alaska. He himself is mentioned and was interviewed by the author.

No comments about The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898.