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Alaska: Our Returning Frontier
Rogers, Bruce | February 18, 1925 issue

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The article focuses on the geographical changes that have taken place in Alaska. Arctic Alaska is too barren a pasturage for the white man, now that the surface gold has been skimmed away, but it throbs with its own life. Eskimos still fringe the coastline from the Kuskokwim to the Canadian north. Their ways have been modified but not revolutionized by contact with the missionary, the teacher, gold-digger and fur buyer. Some are reindeer herdsmen now, but for the most part they trap the fox and catch the seal and walrus and whale, though with steel-toothed traps, high-powered rifles, and bombs. The igloo remains the prevailing architecture.

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ESKIMOS; ARCTIC peoples; HERDERS; IGLOOS; ECOLOGY; ALASKA; UNITED States
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