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Sheldon Jackson
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Sheldon Jackson
Includes chapters on education in Alaska and the introduction of Siberian reindeer to Alaska.
Sheldon Jackson
Excerpt from Sheldon Jackson: Pathfinder and Prospector of the Missionary Vanguard in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska During the half-century which preceded this period, the United States, by purchase, by conquest and by diplomacy, had acquired a magnificent domain of virgin territory, which extended from the Mississippi and the Gulf Of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and the Shores Of Puget Sound. Into this New West, then an unknown and almost nu inhabited land, - a land Of mystery and desert solitudes and deadly perils - a few resolute settlers had gone, fol lowing the trail of the hunters and trappers, in the stir ring days of the forties. Up to the middle of the cen tury, however, there were ...
The Alaskan Pathfinder; the Story of Sheldon Jackson
Jackson was a Presbyterian minister to New Mexico. In 1877 he went to Alaska and worked for the Eskimos. He procured reindeer from Siberia to supply meat, began the Alaska school system, preached to the Eskimos, and publicized Alaska to the nation.
Sheldon Jackson, Pathfinder and Prospector of the Missionary Vanguard in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska
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