Seventeen Years in Alaska: A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat Volume 16

by Albin Johnson

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yakutat, he found himself in a wave of foreign arrivals as migrants poured into Alaska seeking economic opportunities and the chance at a different life. While Johnson came with pious intentions, others imposed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602232113
• ISBN13: 9781602232112
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"