Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Travel
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Travel
Book Type: Paperback
Leo T. reviewed on + 1775 more book reviews
Twenty offerings that evoke Alaska. I liked best Ms. Lockwood's 'Rosie and the Cache Economy' recalling a simple task when she was a girl residing in a small village. She escorted a blind lady back home, circa 1960.
"...the incoming white people brought with them the American version of a Russian trading post, called 'stores,' which bartered with paper and bits of metal called 'money' instead of furs. Native families, like the one I grew up in, still kept caches but used cash to get things outside our landscape. Since everything in the village is within walking distance, I was given the chore of going to the store when we were low on provisions. I was too young to be trusted with cash. My parents had opened a charge account with the Alaska Commerical Company store, where I brought notes and lists of things to bring back home."
In 'Dead Fish and Dreams' Jennifer Brice shares with readers her visit to couple and their two children who were able to homestead before that ended in 1986. Less than a hundred families were able to prove up in this remote area.
No index, so I reduced my rating by one star.
"...the incoming white people brought with them the American version of a Russian trading post, called 'stores,' which bartered with paper and bits of metal called 'money' instead of furs. Native families, like the one I grew up in, still kept caches but used cash to get things outside our landscape. Since everything in the village is within walking distance, I was given the chore of going to the store when we were low on provisions. I was too young to be trusted with cash. My parents had opened a charge account with the Alaska Commerical Company store, where I brought notes and lists of things to bring back home."
In 'Dead Fish and Dreams' Jennifer Brice shares with readers her visit to couple and their two children who were able to homestead before that ended in 1986. Less than a hundred families were able to prove up in this remote area.
No index, so I reduced my rating by one star.
