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Alaska

An American Colony

By Stephen W. Haycox

Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the...

In Pursuit of Alaska

An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909

By Jean Morgan Meaux, Stephen W. Haycox

This collection of Alaskan adventures begins with a newspaper article written by John Muir during his first visit to Alaska in 1879, when the sole U.S. government representative in all the territory's 586,412 square miles...

An Alaska Anthology

Interpreting the Past

By Stephen W. Haycox, Mary Childers Mangusso

Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent...

Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805

By Stephen W. Haycox, James K. Barnett, Caedmon Liburd

Saluting an era of adventure and knowledge seeking, fifteen original essays consider the motivations of European explorers of the Pacific, the science and technology of 18th-century exploration, and the significance of Spanish, French, and British...