Yukon
The Last Frontier
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1993
- Category
- Historical Geography, Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT), Post-Confederation (1867-), West
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774804417
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land 'remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions.'
About the author
Contributor Notes
Melody Webb, who spent time in the Yukon wilderness before writing this book, is the assistant superintendent of Teton National Park.