Book ID: CBB595775374

Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938 (2015)

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Tower, Elizabeth A. (Author)


Old Stone Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xiv + 337 pp.
Language: English

Icebound Empire is about industry and politics on the Last Frontier. It is the epic story of three men caught up in the early twentieth century battle for control of Alaska's land and resources. George Cheever Hazelet, Stephen Birch, and David Henry Jarvis were prime movers in the most ambitious early Alaska development initiative -- the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate. These three men convinced New York investors to provide capital to build the Kennecott copper mines and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, but opposition from political opportunists, Eastern conservationists and muckraking journalists stifled further industrial development on the last frontier. (Amazon)

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Review Justin Spivey (Fall/Winter 2015) Review of "Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938". Railroad History (p. 110). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ness, Norman F.
Schleper, Simone
Scheffler, J.
Haycox, Stephen
Marixa Lasso
Lanzarotta, Tess
Concepts
Economic development
Pioneers
Agriculture
Personal narratives
Oil; natural gas
Space research and exploration
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Alaska (U.S.)
United States
Soviet Union
Hawaii (U.S.)
Netherlands
Russia
Institutions
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Naval Arctic Research Laboratory
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Glacier National Park
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