Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alaska History: An Outline -- Finding America by Raymond H. Fisher -- Russian Dependence on the Natives of Alaska by James R. Gibson -- Ivan Pan'kov: Architect of Aleut Literacy by Lydia T. Black -- Astor and Baranov: Partners in Empire by James P. Ronda -- Two Missions to Alaska by Richard L. Dauenhauer -- The Sale of Alaska in the Context of Russian American Relations in the Nineteenth Century by Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov -- American Public Opinion and the Purchase of Russian America by Richard E. Welch, Jr. -- Hemmed In" : Reactions in British Columbia to the Purchase of Russian America by Richard E. Neunherz -- The Early Ministry of S. Hall Young, 1878-1888 by Ted C. Hinckley -- Female Native Teachers in Southeast Alaska: Sarah Dickinson, Tellie Paul, and Frances Willard by Victoria Wyatt -- Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron: A Story of Who Controls the Bacon by William Schneider -- Controlling the Periphery: The Territorial Administration of the Yukon-Alaska, 1857-1959 by Ken Coates -- Gold Rushers North: A Census Study of the Yukon and Alaskan Gold Rushes, 1896-1900 by James H. Ducker -- Sourdough Radicalism: Labor and Socialism in Alaska, 1905-1920 by Joseph Sullivan -- The Pacific Salmon Fisheries: A Study of Irrational Conservation by James Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo -- Anthony J. Dimond and the Politics of Integrity by Mary Childers Mangusso -- The New Deal and Alaskan Natives 1936-1945 by Kenneth R. Philp -- Governor Ernest Gruening's Struggle for Territorial Status: Personal or Political? by Claus-M Naske -- The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway by M.V. Bezeau -- Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights of 1945 by Terrence M. Cole