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Alaska's daughter : an Eskimo memoir of the early twentieth century
- Title
- Alaska's daughter : an Eskimo memoir of the early twentieth century / Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
- Author
- Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912-2006.
- Publication
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E99.E7 P517 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 212 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, the child of a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and an adventurous father of German heritage who found a home there. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of six lost both her legs to frostbite. A harrowing, long midwinter sled ride saved her life, after her grandparents, with whom she was spending the winter in their traditional Eskimo home, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. This loss did not keep her from either personal triumphs or close observation of the history unfolding around her. She kept journals, recording carefully both her life and the transformation of her Alaska. In this memoir drawn from those records, she introduces us to arctic explorers and colonists, Eskimo reindeer herders, native visitors from Siberia, trading ship captains, missionaries, prospectors, doomed aviators, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206) and index.
- ISBN
- 087421596X (alk. paper)
- 0874215919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004016131
- OCLC
- 55982417
- ocm55982417
- SCSB-5142239
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries