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  • Hospital and Haven

    The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska

    by Mary F. Ehrlander, Hild M. Peters ...
    Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the peoples’ physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The era was marked by great social disruption within Alaska Native communities and high disease and death rates, owing to the influx of non-Natives ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields

    by Richard Thomas Wright ...
    The stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this revised and updated edition of a Canadian bestseller.The legendary town of Barkerville is flourishing today, just as it did more than 150 years ago, but this time under the care of professional and amateur historians. Richard Thomas Wright peels back the pages of history as he unearths the area’s history and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Cruelest Miles

    The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

    by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury ...
    "A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle TimesWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Emperor Of The North

    Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company

    by James Raffan ...
    The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a country.The histories of Sir George Simpson and the HBC in the golden years of the 19th century are in many ways one ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gold Rush Queen

    The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman

    by Thora Kerr Illing ...
    A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century.At a time when well-bred women wore tight corsets and entertained each other at tea, Nellie Cashman (1845–1925) was trekking for hundreds of miles through blizzard conditions to deliver food and supplies to ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Wealth Woman

    The remarkable untold story of the Native woman who made gold rush history

    by Deb Vanasse ...
    "A very enjoyable biography of a woman on the cusp of change in the North. Recommended." Choice“Beautifully written biography…much to learn, enjoy, and recommend in this book.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly“A riveting story told by a brilliant writer.” Pacific Historical ReviewThe never-before-told story of Kate Carmack, whose resilience and survival made gold rush historyHeadlines shouted the... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder at the Mission

    A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times****“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” *–*Claudio Saunt,author of Unworthy RepublicFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Recollecting

    Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

    Edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia A McCormack ...
    Series series The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
    This rich collection of essays illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.Some essays focus on individuals—a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women—wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • End-of-Earth People

    The Arctic Sahtu Dene

    by Bern Will Brown ...
    A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie’s 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacred Feathers

    The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Mississauga Portraits

    Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

    A Secret History of the Far North

    by Lael Morgan ...
    In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that "half world" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of polite society. Meet "Dutch Kate" Wilson, who pioneered many ... Read more

    $14.95 USD