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* history and politics
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Our Newest Books
Tales, Trails, and Trials - Memoirs of Judge Wickersham
Authors: James Wickersham edited by Terrence Cole
Price: $29.95 / ISBN 978-1-60223-051-4 (paper)
Publication Date: Coming Soon!
Judge James Wickersham’s 1938 memoir Old Yukon is one of the great books by one of the great men of Alaska history.
Called the most truthful account of the gold rush era ever written, Old Yukon is the unvarnished story of Wickersham’s sevenand-a-half years as the only judge in interior Alaska in the early 1900s, in charge of a district that covered over 300,000 square miles.
Wickersham faced the worst of nature and human nature, dealing justice by dog team at fifty below zero to murderers, thieves, conmen, and scoundrels.
His legacy is evident throughout Alaska: for example, he named the city of Fairbanks.
Edited and extensively annotated by historian Terrence Cole, and supplemented with sometimes shocking entries from the judge’s private, unpublished diaries, this new edition reveals a side of early Alaska history never seen before, an inside look at the stories and scandals that made the headlines—and those that didn’t.
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Now in Paperback!
Authors: Wilder, Edna
Price: $16.95 / ISBN 978-1-60223-015-6 (paper)
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The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time which recounts the remarkable life of Minnie and her Eskimo mother as she comes of age in a traditional village on Alaska's western coast. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man, "The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman" relates the next century of Minnie's adventurous life--painting a picture of early twentieth-century village life as Minnie and her Englishman marry and find the determination, strength, and courage to live life in the face of tragedy, rapidly-changing technology, and unrelenting hardship along the Bering Sea. Accompanied by photographs of early Eskimo village life, the narrative poignantly captures a sense of a now-vanished lifestyle on the Seward Peninsula.
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Authors: Wilder, Edna
Price: $17.95 / ISBN 978-1-60223-056-9 (paper)
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In Once Upon an Eskimo Time, Edna Wilder retells a
year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder’s mother,
Minnie Nedercook, grew up in the village of
Rocky Point and didn’t see a white man until she
was in her early teens. Wilder eloquently captures
the oral storytelling traditions of her people and
employs descriptions of the weather and harsh
climates of Alaska’s Norton Sound to illustrate
the hardiness of her mother’s spirit. Family values,
subsistence living, and the cycles of life form a
narrative that captures the now-vanished lifestyle
along the Bering Sea.
Edna Wilder was born in Bluff, Alaska, at that time a
small mining community just northwest of Rocky Point,
where this story takes place. She is the daughter of the
late Minnie Nedercook and Arthur Samuel Tucker.
Wilder now lives in Fairbanks.
This is Edna Wilder’s second book. Her first, Secrets
of Eskimo Skin Sewing, is available from the University of
Alaska Press. The sequel to this book, The Eskimo Girl
and the Englishman, was published by the University of
Alaska Press in 2007.
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