Columbia Son, by Don Gayton

Columbia Son, by Don Gayton Ranald McDonald, son of a Scottish Hudson’s Bay Factor and a Chinook princess, spends his youth at various Forts in the Pacific Northwest, interacting with Indigenous peoples, as well as Scots, English, Quebecois, and Hawaiians. At Fort Astoria, he befriends a Japanese shipwreck survivor. After a stint in central Canada,…

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Alaska-Yukon Place Names, by James Phillips

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 popular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway…

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