From the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A tropical valley hidden deep in the wilderness. Sea serpents sighted off the Bering Sea Coast. A ghostly maiden's endless search for the young miner she loved. Lost mines containing unimaginable wealth in gold.
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Strange Stories sneaks up on the reader . . . it's hard to put down. --The Whitehorse Star, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
This is a book you want to read from cover to cover in one sitting. --Tri-City Herald, Richland, WA
This is a book you want to read from cover to cover in one sitting. --Tri-City Herald, Richland, WA
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Ed Ferrell has lived in Alaska for more than fifty years where he taught in high schools and the University of Alaska. He and his wife, Nancy, also an author, live in Juneau.
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This is a collection of edited snippets from 19th century and early 20th century newspapers out of the Yukon and Alaska, setting forth unsubstantiated stories of lost mines, mysterious tribes, living mammoths,hidden valleys, and other various anomalies from those regions. The author makes no attempt to comment on the veracity of any of the stories, some of which have been commented upon in more detail in other more comprehensive books dealing with similar controversial or unexplained phenomena and the like. It's a quick and mildly entertaining read, but those who require more details and substance to such intriguing mysteries should look elsewhere.
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During the gold rush era, stampeders pushed into a great wilderness as large as the present United States, lands we now call Alaska and the Yukon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tropical valley, silent city, white chief Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yukon River, British Columbia, Stikine River, Von Hasslocher, Eliza Anderson, Frank Perry, North Country, Tail Men, Alaska Weekly, Candle Creek, Nome Nugget, Tiekel City, Baranofs Castle, Ethel Williams, Fort Yukon, Interior Alaska, Muir Glacier, Porcupine River, Tagish Lake, Van Valin, Alaska-Yukon Magazine, Bering Sea, Captain Powers, Dutch Harbor, Far North New!
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During the gold rush era, stampeders pushed into a great wilderness as large as the present United States, lands we now call Alaska and the Yukon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tropical valley, silent city, white chief Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yukon River, British Columbia, Stikine River, Von Hasslocher, Eliza Anderson, Frank Perry, North Country, Tail Men, Alaska Weekly, Candle Creek, Nome Nugget, Tiekel City, Baranofs Castle, Ethel Williams, Fort Yukon, Interior Alaska, Muir Glacier, Porcupine River, Tagish Lake, Van Valin, Alaska-Yukon Magazine, Bering Sea, Captain Powers, Dutch Harbor, Far North New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Pacific Northwest by Barry Anderson on page 74
- Far North (Vanishing Cultures) by Jan Reynolds in Back Matter
- Real Alaska: Finding Our Way in the Wild Country by Paul Schullery on page 179, and Back Matter
- Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: Secret History of the Far North by Lael Morgan in Back Matter
- Pay Dirt: Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Alaska Gold-Miner by Otis Hahn in Back Matter
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