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Title: The Great West: its attractions and resources. Containing a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ... by Prof. F.V. Hayden ... Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Brodix, Charles R., (from old catalog) pub Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ill., C.R. Brodix
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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GREEK CHURCH, SITKA, ALASKA. ALASKA AND ITS INHABITANTS. 477 terest in Alaska that twelve thousand dollars were contributed toward theestablishment of mission-schools in that section. I also addressed thetheological seminaries, and secured the appointment, by the Board ofHome Missions, of Rev. John G. Brady of New York City for Sitka,Alaska; Rev. S. Hall Young of Parkersburg, W. Va., Rev. G. W. Lyons.I also secured a hearing before several committees of Congress in behalfof a government and schools for that section. This was followed up inthe winters of 1879 and 1880. The Methodists and Baptists have also arranged to enter the mission-field in Alaska in 1880. NATIVE RACES. The native races in Alaska number about twenty-five thousand; Rus-sians, three hundred or four hundred; Americans and others, five hun-dred. The Indians can be divided into three great classes: the Innuitof Yukon district, the Aleutian, and the Tuski of the Sitkan district;and these again are divided into tribes, se

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