Interior Sketches III: More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites - Ray Bonnell

Descriere Interior Sketches III: More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites - Ray Bonnell

\nTake an artistic tour of -Eastern Interior Alaska -historic sites. \n \n \n\n \nIn the third book of his Interior Sketches series, Fairbanks artist and writer, Ray Bonnell, explores even more historic sites. Join him as he journeys to locations like World War II-era Ladd Field in Fairbanks, and a 1910-era roadhouse and telegraph station at McCallum Creek along the Richardson Highway; and revisits the historic 1915 Tanana Chiefs Conference held in Fairbanks. \n \n \n\n \nRay has tramped the roads and trails of Eastern Interior Alaska for almost four decades, searching out old mining camps, roadhouses, homesteads, villages, and other historic locations. Through his historical essays and detailed pen-&-ink drawings he documents the regions historic sites before time, development and vandalism erase them from the landscape.\n \n \n\n \nHis first two Interior Sketches books each showcased 60 historic sites. In this third book: \n \n- 70 more sites are featured. Each entry includes an essay and a reproduction of one of Ray's pen-&-ink drawings. \n- Sites included were selected from Ray's award-winning newspaper column, Sketches of Alaska. \n- All of the sites are on or near the road system, so you can drive or walk to most of them. \n- A hand-drawn map of Eastern Interior Alaska showing the general location of sites is reproduced in the book.

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PINGO PRESS

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ENSTK

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9781736423608

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1

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