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The Opening of Alaska 1901-1903
19825530Anchorage Alaska: Cook Inlet Historical Society 1982. First Edition. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. xi 111. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of historic photographs. Maps including one fold-out. Bibliography. Index. Bound in glossy stiff wrappers illustrated with black-and-white photos. Brief gift inscription on the title page. Recounts the author's experiences 1901-1903 in establishing Alaska's military telegraph line. Below-freezing weather was the most severe detriment to his men. While the author was firm in his prohibition of alcohol he waxes favorably about Perry Davis Pain Killer "the greatest medicine ever invented for the North." Per Mitchell "I do not know the ingredients other than it is about half alcohol and contains some laudanum but I would hazard a guess at opium red pepper turpentine and tabasco juice." He would give it to his men suffering frostbite.<p>An unaccountably scarce first edition. Reprinted in 1989 this first printing is presented here in a bright fresh copy.</p> . Cook Inlet Historical Society unknown
