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Every year, from June to September, thousands of people "go to Alaska." This means that they take passage at Seattle on the most luxurious steamers that run up the famed "inside passage" to Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell, and Skaguay. Formerly this voyage included a visit to Muir Glacier; but because of the ruin wrought by a recent earthquake, this once beautiful and marvellous thing is no longer included in the tourist trip. This ten-day voyage is unquestionably a delightful one; every imaginable comfort is provided, and the excursion rate is reasonable. However, the person who contents himself with this will know as little about Alaska as a. | Alaska by Ella Higginson 1 Alaska by Ella Higginson The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alaska by Ella Higginson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title Alaska The Great Country Author Ella Higginson Release Date December 10 2010 EBook 34615 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Alaska by Ella Higginson 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALASKA Produced by Greg Bergquist Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. ALASKA THE GREAT COUNTRY Illustration THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN CO. LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA LTD. TORONTO Illustration Photo by E. W. Merrill Sitka Courtesy of G. Kostrometinoff ALEXANDER BARANOFF ALASKA THE GREAT COUNTRY BY ELLA HIGGINSON AUTHOR OF MARIELLA OF OUT-WEST WHEN THE BIRDS GO NORTH AGAIN FROM THE LAND OF THE SNOW-PEARLS ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1910 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT 1908 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November 1908. Reprinted February 1909 March 1910. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.-Berwick Smith Co. Norwood Mass. U.S.A. To MR. AND MRS. HENRY ELLIOTT HOLMES FOREWORD Alaska by Ella Higginson 3 When the Russians first came to the island of Unalaska they were told that a vast country lay to the eastward and that its name was Al-ay-ek-sa. Their own island the Aleuts called Nagun-Alayeksa meaning the land lying near Alayeksa. The Russians in time came to call the country itself Alashka the peninsula Aliaska and the island Unalashka. Alaska is an English corruption of the original name. A great Russian moved under inspiration when he .
