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Alaska Gold. Life on the New Frontier, 1898-1906. Letters and Photographs of the McDaniel Brothers.
by Kunkel, Jeff [Editor]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0942087143
- ISBN 13
- 9780942087147
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates and the California Historical Society, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Forward by Kevin Starr. Square octavo. Pp. xi, [1], 166. Profusely illustrated from period photographs. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A wonderful photographic essay and intimate portrait of life on the new frontier of Nome, Alaska at the turn of the century from the photographs, letters and diaries of the McDaniel Brothers..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1409
- Title
- Alaska Gold. Life on the New Frontier, 1898-1906. Letters and Photographs of the McDaniel Brothers.
- Author
- Kunkel, Jeff [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0942087143
- ISBN 13
- 9780942087147
- Publisher
- Scottwall Associates and the California Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- gold rush, Alaska, Klondike, photography
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