REPORT OF ALASKA INVESTIGATIONS IN 1914
by Jones, E. Lester
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- GOOD
- Seller
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Creswell, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. GOOD. Edgetorn paper covers, but interior complete. This copy taken in when brand new and stamped by Oregon State Library March 20, 1915, and deaccessioned maybe 95 years later. Maps, and scads of scarce photographic images of an already-then-quickly-fading Native-American subsistence life. Report dated December 31st, 1914, deals in depth with the fishing industry - salmon (trapping, purse seining, haul or beach seining, gill-netting, other methods, seasons, closed seasons/water and exemptions, salteries, power-boat trolling, curing, enemies of Salmon, etc. Also Halibut, Codfish, Herring, Whaling, Trout, Taxation, Hatchery Work, Fishery Law Enforcement, Indians and Aleuts, Pollution, Fur-Bearing Animals, Fox Farms, Pribilof Islands, Reindeer, Seal Meat, Wireless Stations, General assessment of needs. PACKED with fabulous black and white photographs, many of Native Americans, dwellings, chiefs, settlements, early fisherfolk and canneries, maps, diagrams, etc.
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- Bookseller
- The Sensible Magpie
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70649
- Title
- REPORT OF ALASKA INVESTIGATIONS IN 1914
- Author
- Jones, E. Lester
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1915
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The Sensible Magpie has no established storefront; she is MAIL ORDER ONLY. Once payment is received and processed, item(s) will be shipped out promptly.
PAYPAL ACCEPTED and ENCOURAGED!!
Orders will be filled and shipped out on as soon as they are processed, within two days of accepting order, generally. If you have need of quicker delivery, please call directly: (541) 942-6479, between 8am and 8pm, Pacific Standard Time.
Media and Priority Rates include standard USPS tracking numbers, which I will include once processed.
Postage rates for within the U.S. will cover up to five pounds.
If your order is heavier or oversized, we may contact you noting extra charges are required.
Delivery confirmation available upon request.
UPS and FEDEX Expedited Services available if requested and will be rated accordingly.
We pack well! We want your order to arrive in the same manner as it left us. 30 Day return if your book is not as described, with full refund including original shipping costs.
Customer information kept confidential. Used ONLY for the purpose of fulfilling orders. NEVER sold or soliticited to by any other party.
Miss Magpie humbly thanks you for your interest!
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of information."
~Alice Munro
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