Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every
reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author
James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair
traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region.
Since the most poular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the
Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of
Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways
mountains and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more
interested in the scenery, the historic past or the fabulous yarns
connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of
Alaska and the Yukon: Poorman, Shaman's Village, Chicken and Eek, and
will have no trouble imagining the mettle of those pioneers who traveled
Moose Pass, shot Sqauaw Rapids or panned in Pure Gold Creek.
This alphabetically arranged dictionary detaisl the origins and meanings
o fnames for cities, towns and a representative sampling of remote
native (both Eskimo and Indian) villages in the state of Alaska and the
Yukon Territory. In addition it includes the name sources of many
geogaphical features that are of historical significance
To heighten undersanding of the region, its history, and its
developmant, many less prominent place names are included because they
explain the flora and fauna (Fireweed Creek, Ptarmigan, Whale and Walrus
islands), geology and topography (Platinum, Silver City, Pingaluk
River). and exploration and settlement ( Bering Sea, Masaspina and Murir
glaciers, Cook Inlet, Mount Vancouver, Sixtymile River, Hydaburg, Watson
Lake).
