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Hello, Alaska!
9781938700729
Regular price $9.95 Sale price $4.98 Save 50%
Welcome to Alaska! Parent and child moose tour Alaska in best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock's Hello! board book series for children. In Hello, Alaska! join the pair as they ride a tram in Juneau, enjoy a train ride in the wilderness, go dog sledding, and see a glacier. Along the way they also spy wildlife like sea otters, whales and Arctic fox, hike in the tundra, watch salmon jump upstream, visit Denali, and spend the night in a cozy cabin! For ages 2-5. Made in the USA.
Alaska's Tanana Valley Railroads
9780738596679
Regular price $24.99 Sale price $12.50 Save 50%
In a region desperate for transportation to rich, gold-bearing creeks, the narrow-gauge Tanana Mines Railroad was built over permafrost, bogs, and hills to carry miners and supplies in 1905. Reorganized as the Tanana Valley Railroad, this little line promised the survival of both gold mining and Fairbanks until Fairbanks's economic base broadened. The railroad, built with Klondike Gold Rush earnings, prospered for only a few years and was acquired by the Alaska Railroad. The narrow-gauge survived 25 years, serving as the terminus for the Alaska Railroad and ensuring the development of Interior Alaska.
