Author: Frederica De Laguna
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: valley, mclellan, books, yukon, alaska, among, dena, exploring, travels
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2001-04
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 029597902X
ISBN-13: 9780295979021

’Operating on a shoestring, for this was the height of the Depression, we launched at Nenana two skiffs of our own making and unconventional design, like the most foolhardy party that ever embarked on the great river. For the next 80 days, over a distance of 1,600 miles, we fared through what was then truly a wilderness looking for ancient archaeological sites and recording our adventures and misadventures, our many disappointments and fewer lucky finds, and above all, our rewarding contacts with the Native peoples and white settlers we met along the way’ - Frederica de Laguna.This

Author: Frederica Pratter
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: rift
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-07-08
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1450226981
ISBN-13: 9781450226981

The Vatican is being terrorized because they have been hiding the essential truth about the creation of humanity on Earth. The Rift by author Frederica Pratter follows terrorist hunter John Cordes as he is called to help the Vatican deal with vicious killers threatening to expose a truth so devastating that it will cast the world into chaos. John teams with beautiful Vatican operative Laura d’Andres to hunt down those threatening the Vatican, but in the process uncovers a bigger plot, one that calls into question everything humanity ever believed about its origins and the very nature o

Author: Frederica Sagor Maas
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: hollywood, writer, pilgrim, miss, shocking
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-06-10
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0813121221
ISBN-13: 9780813121222

" Freddie Maas’s revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved to Hollywood and launched her own writing career by drafting a screenplay of the bestselling novel The Plastic Age for ""It"" girl Clara Bow. On the basis of that script, she landed a staff position at powerhouse MGM studios. In the years to come, she worked with and befriended numerous actors and directors, including Norma Shearer, Joan

Authors:Frederica Merrell, Mira Latoszek,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: washington, america, images, beacon, seattle
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-12-14
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738528617
ISBN-13: 9780738528618

Ride the trolley up the ridge of Beacon Hill and discover one of South Seattle’s most interesting districts. Unique among Seattle neighborhoods, Beacon Hill is a community where immigrants from all over the globe have settled side by side for over 100 years. This new book tells the story of the people and businesses of Beacon Hill in vintage photographs, the majority of which date before World War II. Readers will learn about the immigrants who worked on farms, opened shops, and labored in shipyards, the building of Jefferson Park, as well as the activism and political struggles that sha

Author: American Anthropological AssociationFrederica de
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: american, anthropologist, anthropology, papers
Number of Pages: 838
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0803280084
ISBN-13: 9780803280083

The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper in

Authors:George Thornton Emmons, Frederica De Laguna, Jean Lo
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: museum, natural, history, american, papers, indians, anthropological, tlingit
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 1991-10
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0295970081
ISBN-13: 9780295970080

Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons, U.S.N., was station in Alaska during the 1880s and 1890s, a time when the Navy was largely responsible for law and stability in the Territory. His duties brought him into close contact with the Tlingit Indians, whose respect he won and from whom he gained an understanding of and respect for their culture. He became a friend of many Tlingit leaders, visited their homes, traveled in their canoes when on leave, purchased native artifacts, and recorded native traditions. In addition to an interest in native manufacturing and in the more spectacular aspects of