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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mama: Add a description of this character.
- Papa
- David
- Amundsen
- Whitlam
- Tommy
- Fairbanks
- Mary
- Albert
- Henry Larsen
- Jesse Lee
- Sarah
- Pederson
- Anne
- Boxer
- Tony
- Elizabeth
- Patterson
- Ben Eielson
- Robert
- Joe Crosson
- Mr. Hatten
- Nobile
- Stefansson
- Kinaviak
- Mr. Lopp
- Gussie
- Pat Reid
- Wilma
- Matilda
- Molly
- Edmonds
- Billy
- Bessie
- Frank Dorbandt
- Ada
- Jimmy Lapierre
- Margaret
- Mcgrath
Setting & Locations edit
- Alaska Railroad
- Seattle
- Siberia
- Grantley Harbor
- San Francisco
- Bering Sea
- Norge
- United States
- Washington
- Arctic Ocean
- Seward
- Teller
- North Cape
- Nook
- Tin City
- Spitsbergen
- Anchorage
- Italy
- Wrangel Island
- Point Barrow
- Russia
- Tuksuk River
- St. Roch
- Cape Prince Of Wales
- Yukon River
- Vancouver
- Bering Strait
- Germany
- Korea
- King Island
- Norway
- St. Lawrence Island
- Pittsburgh
- Ootenna
- Shishmaref
First Sentence edit
On my mother's side of the family I am Eskimo.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 979.800497120092
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