In Darkest Alaska: Travels and Empire Along the Inside Passage - Robert Bruce Campbell - Google Books

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Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the…