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MARC recordCaptain Elias W. Johnston: gold rush transportation businessman / Robert E. King.
| Title: | Captain Elias W. Johnston: gold rush transportation businessman / Robert E. King. |
| Author(s): | King, Robert E. |
| Date: | 1996. |
| In: | Alaska History. (1996.), Vol. 11(1) (1996) |
| Abstract: | Biographical study of Alaskan pioneer in passenger transportation and developer of related landing and shipping facilities for Klondike and Nome gold rushes. Johnston established earliest frieght- and passenger-hauling businesses at Skagway and was first person to attempt to develop Nome's harbour. |
| Notes: | Alaska History. Vol. 11(1) :1-12 (1996). |
| Keywords: | 656 -- Transport services. 627.2 -- Ports, harbours and anchorages: engineering construction. 622.342 -- Gold rushes. 93 -- History. 92 -- Biographies: Johnston, Elias W. X -- Biographies and obituaries. (*49) -- Alaska. |
| SPRI record no.: | 139500 |
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