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History Historical Geography

Yukon

The Last Frontier

by (author) Melody Webb

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1993
Category
Historical Geography, Post-Confederation (1867-), West, Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774804417
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'

About the author

Contributor Notes

Melody Webb, who spent time in the Yukon wilderness before writing this book, is the assistant superintendent of Teton National Park.