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Episode 178: Opportunity (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2021-08-30 07:00:03 +0000 UTCSome of the darkest moments in human history have taken place because of our hunger for a second chance, a better life, or a fresh start. But not all opportunities are guaranteed a bright and shiny outcome.
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Further Reading
- “How the Great Fire of London Created Insurance,” Museum of London, July 2016, https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/how-great-fire-london-created-insurance.
- Abercrombie, William R. Alaska. 1899. Copper River Exploring Expedition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900.
- Adams, Eric. “Specters and vanishing tombstones at Kennecott Copper Mines.” Anchorage Daily News. October 31, 2013. https://www.adn.com/features/article/teeth-chattering-tales-kennecott-copper-mines-keeps-government-officials-away/2013/10/31.
- “Alaska’s Oil & Gas Industry.” Resource Development Council. Accessed January 22, 2021. https://www.akrdc.org/oil-and-gas.
- Barefield, Robin. More than 2000 People Disappear Every Year in Alaska. Medium.com. August 6, 2018. https://robinbarefield76.medium.com/missing-in-alaska-4251b8f27b73.
- Berton, Pierre. The Klondike Fever. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1985.
- Borneman, Walter R. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
- Bruce, Miner Wait. Alaska: its history and resources, gold fields, routes and scenery. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Co., 1895.
- Dihle, Bjorn. Haunted Inside Passage. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 2017.
- Fox, Daniel. “Book gives haunting history of Southeast Alaska.” The Skagway News. March 19, 2017. https://skagwaynews.com/2017/03/29/book-gives.-haunting-history-of-southeast-alaska.
- Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 2018.
- McCarthy, Alex. “Spirits from shipwreck still spooking downtown business.” Juneau Empire. October 30, 2017. https://www.juneauempire.com/news/spirits-from-shipwreck-still-spooking-downtown-business.
- McConaghy, Lorraine. Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
- Paterson, T. W. British Columbia Shipwrecks. Langley: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd., 1976.
- Satterfield, Archie. Chilkoot Pass, the Most Famous Trail in the North. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1978.
- “The Ghosts of Red Onion Saloon.” Haunted Rooms America. Accessed January 21, 2021. https://www.hauntedrooms.com/alaska/haunted-places/red-onion-saloon-skagway.
- “The Palm Sunday Avalanche.” National Park Service. Accessed January 20, 2021. https://www.nps.gov/articles/palm-sunday-avalanche.htm.
- Tyler, Jacki Hedlund. “The Unwanted Sailor.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 117, no. 4 (2016): pp 506-535.
Comments
David Ricker
The land bridge to Alaska was in the North Pacific not the North Atlantic. Otherwise, great show as always.
