"A considerable portion of the work is given to descriptions of the country, the climate, productions, conditions, and mode of life prevailing there. The tables of distances are comprehensive and sufficiently detailed.

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CLARENCE L. ANDREWS.EDMOND S. MEANY.Descriptive Booklet on the Alaska Historical M~£seum. By. A. P.KAsHEvAROFF, Curator. (Juneau, Alaska: Alaska HistoricalAssociation, 1922. Pp. 61.)This interesting pamphlet gives the story of the creation ofthe Alaska Historical Museum with an account of the specimens(New York and1922. Pp. 175.Book ReviewsRand-McNally Guide to Alaska and Yukon.Chicago: Rand-MeNally and Company,$2.50.)Other maps and illustrations have similar interest attached tothem. Quotations and citations evince an earnestness of work-manship. Many of the struggles are given in detail down to thetreaty of 1868. Some readers may miss an extended account ofCuster's defeat in the Battle of the Big Hom of June 25, 1876.That disaster is referred to often. It is called the finale of thestruggle and in the scheme of this work does not seem to callfor the same detailed treatment as that given the Fetterman dis-aster and other earlier battles. The greatest Indian portrayed inthe work is Red Cloud, the Ogallala Sioux war chief, and thetreatment of the famous scout, Jim Bridger, makes what is prob-ably the best biography yet written of one of the most effectivepersonalities of the West.The authors and the publisher should be congratulated uponthis beautiful and valuable addition to Western American litera·ture.A recent publication relating to Alaska is the Rand-MeNallyGuide, giving data for travelers or settlers in the northern Terri-tory. It is profusely illustrated and contains maps-one of theTerritory as a whole, and several of details of different route~and localities.A considerable portion of the work is given to descriptionsof the country, the climate, productions, conditions, and mode oflife prevailing there. The tables of distances are comprehensiveC'nd sufficiently detailed.This is the first guide to the Territory published since the oneprepared by Eliza Ruhama Scidmore was issued by Appleton andCompany, in 1898, and should fill a widely extended need for justsuch a volume of information.68

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