COLBY, MERLE — A Guide to Alaska Last American Frontier

New York, NY: MacMillan, 1943. Later Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations & Map; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The map in the rear pocket of the book is in clean, bright condition. "Writers chosen for the project profiled U. S. States and territories in books meant for potential visitors to those places. Colby’s assignment was to write a guidebook for the territory of Alaska. Colby, who lived in Massachusetts, traveled to Alaska by train and steamship in the late 1930s. When he was writing the book, there was no highway connecting Alaska to the Lower 48. The road then ended a few hundred miles short of Alaska, in Hazelton, British Columbia. A historical novelist and fiction writer, Colby filled 500 pages of A Guide to Alaska with his descriptions of the territory and the 60,000 people that lived in it." (from UAF news and information). Very Good+ .