Author: United States. Revenue-Cutter ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885
Author: United States. Revenue-Cutter ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885
Author: M. A. HealyReport of the Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin, in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885
Author: United States. Revenue-Cutter ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884
Author: M. A. HealyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Cruise in Alaskan waters, Bering and Chukchi seas, 1884.
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884
Author: United States. Revenue-Cutter ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Details the 1884 voyage of the Corwin to explore Alaska and the Bering Sea.
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
Author: Dennis L. NoblePublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081306323X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden "This is a book of adventure that tells how one man shaped the Alaskan frontier at a crucial time in American history."--Vincent William Patton, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, retired "Diligent research and precise writing reveal the realities of race relations in nineteenth-century America, as well as the dangers, loneliness, and complex relationships of life at sea in that era."--Bernard C. Nalty, author of Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), through his service to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. Healy arrested lawbreakers, put down mutinies aboard merchant ships, fought the smuggling of illegal liquor and firearms, rescued shipwrecked sailors from a harsh and unforgiving environment, brought medical aid to isolated villages, prevented the wholesale slaughter of marine wildlife, and explored unknown waters and lands. Captain Healy's dramatic feats in the far north were so widely reported that a New York newspaper once declared him the "most famous man in America." But Healy hid a secret that contributed to his legacy as a lonely, tragic figure. In 1896, Healy was brought to trial on charges ranging from conduct unbecoming an officer to endangerment of his vessel for reason of intoxication. As punishment, he was put ashore on half pay with no command and dropped to the bottom of the Captain's list. Eventually, he again rose to his former high position in the service by the time of his death in 1904. Sixty-seven years later, in 1971, the U.S. Coast Guard learned that Healy was born a slave in Georgia who ran away to sea at age fifteen and spent the rest of his life passing for white. This is the rare biography that encompasses both sea adventure and the height of human achievement against all odds.
United States Government Publications
Author: John Howard HickcoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Catalogue
Author: Arctic Institute of North America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Fauna of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula
Author: Olaus Johan MuriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Systematic account of the results of a survey made in 1936 and 1937 to aid supervision of the Aleutian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. (AB60374).