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Author Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912-2006.

Title Alaska's daughter : an Eskimo memoir of the early twentieth century / Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations, map
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 206) and index.
Summary "Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, with a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and a father of German heritage. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of six, despite a harrowing, long midwinter sled ride to rescue her, lost both her legs to frostbite when her grandparents, with whom she was spending the winter in their traditional Eskimo home, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Fitted with artificial legs financed by an eastern benefactor, Elizabeth kept journals of her struggles, triumphs, and adventures, recording her impressions of the changing world around her and experiences with the motley characters she met. These included Roald Amundsen, whose dirigible landed in Teller after crossing the Arctic Circle; the ill-fated 1921 British colonists of Wrangel Island in the Arctic; trading ship captains and crews; prospectors; doomed aviators; and native reindeer herders. Elizabeth moved on to boarding school, marriage, and the state of Washington, where she compiled her records into this memoir and where, at age ninety-two, she now lives."--Publisher's description
Note Print version record.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Language English.
Contents Foreword; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; Epilogue; References; Index.
Subject Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912-2006.
Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912-2006 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJB8qRDDgrJGXYfmxCJqwC
Inupiat women -- Alaska -- Teller -- Biography.
Inupiat women -- Alaska -- Teller -- Social conditions.
Inupiat -- Alaska -- Teller -- Social life and customs.
Teller (Alaska) -- History.
Teller (Alaska) -- Social life and customs.
Alaska -- History.
Femmes inupiat -- Alaska -- Teller -- Biographies.
Femmes inupiat -- Alaska -- Teller -- Conditions sociales.
Inupiat (Inuits) -- Alaska -- Teller -- Mœurs et coutumes.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- History -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- General.
Inupiat -- Social life and customs
Inupiat women
Manners and customs
Alaska -- Teller https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyRyQdWv8kphbxMMXkbh3
Genre/Form Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies
History
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912- Alaska's daughter. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004 087421596X 0874215919 (DLC) 2004016131 (OCoLC)55982417
ISBN 0874215056 (electronic bk.)
9780874215052 (electronic bk.)
9786613275219
6613275212
087421596X (alk. paper)
9780874215960 (alk. paper)
0874215919 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874215915 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
128327521X
9781283275217
Standard No. AU@ 000055610470
GBVCP 1008648922
UKMGB 020142885

 
    
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