title: Alaska Pioneer Interiors: An Annotated Photographic File (Alaska Historical Commission Studies in History)
author:  Jane G. Haigh 
description: It's a book to linger over, especially with a good magnifying glass. -- <i>Ann Chandonnet, Anchorage Times</i><br /><br />The effect is riveting- sometimes like making a visit to old friends, occaisionally like playing a voyeurism. -- <i>Jean Anderson, Fairbanks Daily News Miner</i>
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  # [Acknowledgments](toc.xhtml#toc-acknowledgements)
  
  
  This novel was very much inspired by the real-life 1885 journey into Alaska
  led by Lieutenant Henry T. Allen. His _Report of an Expedition to the Copper,
  Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers in the Territory of Alaska_ was both a starting
  ground and a constant source of information. In addition, I am grateful to the
  University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library,
  which holds the Fred Fickett papers. Fickett served as private in Allen’s
  Copper River expedition, and his diaries and letters are a treasure trove.
  
  
  Further invaluable research was made available by Alaska’s Digital Archives
  (vilda.alaska.edu), the Alaska Historical Archives, and the Anchorage Museum,
  in particular the 2013 exhibit _Dena’inaq’ Huch’ulyeshi_ and accompanying
  book. Thanks also to Gregory Shine and Doug Wilson of the Fort Vancouver
  National Historical Site.
  
  
  The Rasmuson Foundation not only provided me with grant funding to raft a
  r