Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. Men with horse drawn sleds leaving Valdez, Alaska, with cases of eggs bound for Fairbanks on Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number G632. Feb. 20, 1906....
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...