First written as newspaper letters in 1883 and 1884, these chapters follow a steamer up the coast from Port Townsend and Victoria through British Columbia into Alaska. Scidmore describes Tlingit villages and totem poles, Fort Wrangell and the Stikine, the Taku glaciers and Sitka with its Russian church and Indian rancherie.
A pioneering travel book on Alaska by the writer later remembered for Washington’s cherry trees. Download the free EPUB.