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Cook Inlet Historical Society. Very good plus showing light cover wear and no markings. Nice 3-panel fold-out map bound in at back with trail shown in red. Other historical photos and illustrations and etc. Scholarly work. . Very Good Plus. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1982.
Memoirs of World War I: From Start to Finish of Our Greatest War. by Mitchell, Brig. Gen. William - 1960
by Mitchell, Brig. Gen. William
Memoirs of World War I: From Start to Finish of Our Greatest War.
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Random House 1960., 1960. 1st ed. First Edition. 312p. Photos. Jacket priced. In mylar. Fine/Near Fine Copy.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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Opening of Alaska 1901-1903
by Mitchell, William L. "Billy" Brig. Gen
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The Opening of Alaska 1901-1903
by Mitchell, Brig. Gen. William L.; Lyman Woodman (Ed.)
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Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Cook Inlet Historical Soc., Anchorage, AK 1982. First Edition. 1st Printing. 111 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. History::Localities History::Exploration::Polar 6124L
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The Opening of Alaska 1901-1903
by MITCHELL, Brig. Gen. William L. (U.S. Army Air Corps) (with) Lyman L. Woodman (ed.)
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Anchorage, Alaska: Cook Inlet Historical Society, 1982. First Edition. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. xi, 111. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of historic photographs. Maps, including one fold-out. Bibliography. Index. Bound in glossy stiff wrappers illustrated with black-and-white photos. Brief gift inscription on the title page. Recounts the author's experiences, 1901-1903, in establishing Alaska's military telegraph line. Below-freezing weather was the most severe detriment to his men. While the author was firm in his prohibition of alcohol, he waxes favorably about Perry Davis Pain Killer, "the greatest medicine ever invented for the North." Per Mitchell, "I do not know the ingredients, other than it is about half alcohol and contains some laudanum, but I would hazard a guess at opium, red pepper, turpentine and tabasco juice." He would give it to his men suffering frostbite.An unaccountably scarce first edition. Reprinted in 1989, this first printing is presented here…
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