Title In darkest Alaska : travel and empire along the Inside Passage / Robert Campbell

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Nature and culture in America Nature and culture in America. Contents Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Continental drift -- Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Scenic bonanza -- Frontier commerce -- Totem and taboo -- Juneau's industrial sublime -- Orogenous zones : glaciers and the geologies of empire -- Inside Passage 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Tourism -- Alaska -- 19th century Tourism -- Inside Passage -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Literature Tourism Travel SUBJECT Alaska -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003144 Inside Passage -- Description and travel Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003152 Alaska -- In literature Subject Alaska North America -- Inside Passage Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812201529 0812201523 128321153X 9781283211536 081222048X 9780812220483

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