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قراءة كتاب The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast; The Chief Factory of the Russian American Company
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The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast; The Chief Factory of the Russian American Company
The Story of Sitka
THE STORY OF
SITKA
THE HISTORIC OUTPOST OF THE
NORTHWEST COAST
THE CHIEF FACTORY OF THE RUSSIAN
AMERICAN COMPANY
By
C. L. ANDREWS
Seattle, Washington
PRESS OF
Lowman & Hanford Co.
SEATTLE
| CONTENTS | ||
| Foreword | 1 | |
| I | Discovery | 7 |
| II | Settlement | 13 |
| III | Progress of the Colony | 27 |
| IV | Natives | 45 |
| V | Churches and Schools | 54 |
| VI | Social Life | 60 |
| VII | Trade and Industry | 66 |
| VIII | Sitka under United States Rule | 77 |
| IX | What to See | 92 |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | |
| Facing Page | |
| Lovers’ Lane | 1 |
| Mount Edgecumbe | 11 |
| Sitka in 1805 | 25 |
| Bakery and Shops of the Russians | 36 |
| The Ranche | 46 |
| Cathedral of St. Michael | 54 |
| The Madonna | 56 |
| The Baranof Castle | 60 |
| The Grave of Princess Maksoutoff | 62 |
| Sitka in 1860 | 66 |
| Sitka in 1869 | 77 |
| Sitka–East on Lincoln Street | 93 |
| Interior of Cathedral | 95 |
| Russian Blockhouse | 100 |
| Map of Sitka | 108 |
TO MY MOTHER
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
THE AUTHOR
Copyright 1922
By C. L. ANDREWS
Seattle, Wash.
SITKA
Foreword
The panorama of sea, island, and mountain, which holds Sitka, Alaska, as a jewel in its setting, is one of the most beautiful of those which surround the cities of the world. Toward the sea from the peninsula on which Sitka is situated stretches an expanse of waters, studded with forest-clad islands which break the swell of the Pacific that foams and tumbles on the outer barriers. To the westward Mount Edgecumbe lifts its perfect cone, its summit truncated by the old crater whose fires have been dead for centuries; to the northward Harbor peak lifts its signal to mariners; the Sisters, with a gleam of snow and ice among their pinnacles, lie in the distance of Indian River; to the