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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Wild Ocean Coast West of Glacier Bay '. These 223 pages of Alaskan history and lore are actually the work of Francis `Frank' E. Caldwell. The book opens with a series of colour photographs. LEARN more about : Mount. Saint. Elias, Washing Tug & Barge Company, `Oso Pete' Liadol, Yakutat Tlingits, flour gold, hospitality, 1932, Hotel Huscroft, Ernie Rognan, Luke Nolan Harbor, La Chaussee Spit, and Cenotaph Island. Text assisted by b/w photographs INDEX at back, also sources. B/W maps on pp. 34-37. Author has signed (Juneau) the title page. Cond : Cover is black with white lettering. Inset colour cover photo is of the salmon troller Apollo. Tight in binding. Edge wear and a nasty cover crease. Very light soiling. No marks in text block. Very good reading copy. QUote (p.110) : " Henry Elliott's dates, `between 1846 and 1851' imply that 1851 was the end of the whale fishery on the Fairweather Gtounds. This was far from true. However, whaling did diminish in the Fairweather area around that time, because in 1843 the first bowhead was taken on the Siberian coast. Many vessels were ._._._. . " Size: 4to. B/W Photographs (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …