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  • Date: 09/01/2007
  • Description: None
  • Reference#: 10036
GHAA's Summary Of Mining Claims In and Around Glacier Bay & Surrounding Areas.
  • Date: 09/01/2007
  • Description: GHAA has over 150 mining claims represented on this catalog listing in its files. All will be posted individually under "Archive Documents" in time. Names, location dates, locaters, witnesses, recording dates, and descriptions included of homesteaders activities in Glacier Bay, Excursion Inlet & surrounding areas.
  • Reference#: 10034
Mrs. Gumdrop and the Vanilla Ice Cream. True Story by Sally Lesh, 2005.
  • Date: 05/22/2007
  • Description: Gustavus, Alaska homesteader Jessie Buoy is "Mrs. Gumdrop" in this childrens story written by Sally Lesh in 2005. Jessie & Sally shared friendship, memorable escapades, and an indomitable pioneering spirit. A fitting tribute to Jessie Buoy depicting Gustavus life just as it was.
  • Reference#: 10029
Don Tolen at Salmon River Lodge in 1962
  • Date: 05/27/2004
  • Description: Letter to Dave & JoAnn Lesh from a FAA surveyor who stayed at the lodge with Calbicks as proprietors. Memories and photos.
  • Reference#: 10025
"An Impression of Alaska" Poem by George Wilcox
  • Date: 12/01/1929
  • Description: A gripping perspective about Alaska, the "devil's hell on earth", by a member of NOAA's U.S. CG&S mapping crew that surveyed Alaska, including Glacier Bay in the 1920's.
  • Reference#: 10024
Glacier Bay Administrative History - I: Indigenous People by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Aboriginal use & occupation of Glacier Bay, acculturation & subsistence, native rights & the creation of the Monument
  • Reference#: 10023
Glacier Bay Administrative History - II: Sightseers & Scientists by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: John Muir in Glacier Bay, marketing the Muir Glacier, beginnings of a scientific tradition, consequences of the earthquake of 1899 and a second phase of scientific studies
  • Reference#: 10022
Glacier Bay Administrative History - III: Preserving A Laboratory & A Landscape by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: The campaign for a national monument and a refinement of conservation
  • Reference#: 10021
Glacier Bay Administrative History - IV: Alaska Brown Bears & The Extension Of The Monument by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Public concern for the Alaska brown bear, the park service gets involved, tourism, timber and Alaska brown bears
  • Reference#: 10020
10  Glacier Bay Administrative History - V: World War II Developments by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Planning and improvisation in war time, a white elephant in Excursion Inlet, the airfield and airport
  • Reference#: 10019
11  Glacier Bay Administrative History - VI: Dispossessing The Natives by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: The mixed economy of the Tlingits, Tlingit possessory rights and the ecology of seal hunting
  • Reference#: 10018
12  Glacier Bay Administrative History - VII: Private Interests & A Second Boundary Adjustment by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Administrative development The Gustavus community A boundary correction in Excursion Inlet and the development of a physical plant
  • Reference#: 10017
13  Glacier Bay Administrative History - VIII: Founding The Modern Park by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: A growing staff Glacier Bay concession Proposed roads to Sandy Cove and Adams Inlet Visitor circulation and interpretation
  • Reference#: 10016
14  Glacier Bay Administrative History - IX: Mining, Wilderness And National Park Status by T. Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: A new phase of mining, calls for a park bill, the Wilderness Proposal of 1971 and the Mining in the Parks Act of 1976
  • Reference#: 10015
15  Glacier Bay Administrative History - X: An End To Native Seal Hunting by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Biological and aesthetic objections to seal hunting, seal hunting and cultural change and aboriginal rights to subsistence
  • Reference#: 10014
16  Glacier Bay Administrative History - XI: The Limits Of Ecosystem Management by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Preservation and ecological change, the Alsek and Endicott additions and managing Glacier Bay's marine ecology
  • Reference#: 10013
17  Glacier Bay Administrative History - XII: Protecting The Humpback Whales by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Cruise ships reconsidered, a loss of credibility and managing an endangered species.
  • Reference#: 10012
18  Glacier Bay Administrative History - XIII: Creating A Wilderness Park by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Alsek River float trips, backcountry use and bear management, Glacier Bay science a century after Muir, biosphere reserve and a world heritage site
  • Reference#: 10011
19  Glacier Bay Administrative History - XIV: Commercial Fishing by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Historical development of the commercial fishery, evolution of an NPS fisheries policy toward a prohibition of commercial fishing and the Dry Bay fishery
  • Reference#: 10010
20  Glacier Bay Administrative History - XV: Subsistence Fishing by Theodore Catton
  • Date: 12/01/1993
  • Description: Subsistence, ANILCA and Glacier Bay and a renewed interest in Glacier Bay
  • Reference#: 10009

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