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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Ross Coen -- Introduction -- 1. The Prominence of Gold in 1890s America -- 2. The Beginnings of Modern-Day Alaska -- 3. The Roots of Progressivism -- 4. Congress Considers the Needs of Alaska -- 5. The Alaska Syndicate Emerges as an Economic and Political Force -- 6. Alaskans Fight for Territorial Self-Government -- 7. A Win for Self-Government -- 8. Frontier Politics in 1912 -- 9. Progressivism and the Alaska Railroad -- 10. The New Land of Opportunity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

This study uses first-hand accounts and documents to view African American life in the post-emancipation South. Spanning from the 1860s through the New Deal this study incorporates a broad cross-section of the views of European travelers and Euro-American visitors from the North. The study synthesizes the outsiders' observations and assesses their summaries' overall validity for increasing our understanding of the lives of blacks in the post-emancipation South. These accounts allow for a reconstruction of African American life and labor in the major aspects of black culture