Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska

by Theodore Catton

Book Overview

This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national-park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished in the forests. Their presence challenged the uninhabited national parks and forced a complex debate over inhabited wilderness. Focusing on three principal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826318274
• ISBN13: 9780826318275
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"