A Quest for Adventure: Southcentral Alaska 1905-07

by Jzonay Reitz

Book Overview

When twenty-year-old Bert Ray Libe read "Men wanted for Alaska to build a railroad-apply 526 Jackson Street" on a signboard in San Francisco one July morning in 1905, he immediately envisioned hunting adventures and gold-seeking opportunities in the rugged land of the north. The next morning his adventurous soul was infused with excitement as he boarded the SS Valencia bound for Seward, Alaska, accompanied by over four hundred other men, a woman dressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982217758
• ISBN13: 9781982217754
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"