cantwell first lieutenant (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 325 pgs, photo illustrations. Original patterned green cloth with gilt titled spine. Previous owners signature on rear endpaper - Philip W. Lauriat, 3d Lieut., RCS, Nov 1st, 1903. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor shelf rubbing to edges and spine ends, else bright. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Important narrative of early US Revenue Service work in Alaska and the Yukon River. The Nunivak was a stern-paddle wheel river boat built for duty as a revenue cutter and patrol boat for service on the Yukon River. First Lieutenant John C. Cantwell, USRCS, was assigned on 4 April 1899 as her first and only commanding officer. She was placed in commission on 1 May 1899 and was ordered towed to Seattle by the cutter Rush. The cutters departed San Francisco on 6 May but anchored in Humbolt Harbor as Nunivak was "leaking badly, hog chains and towline parted. Oakum spewed out of seams." After some repairs the cutters departed for Seattle, arriving there on 24 May 1899. They departed Seattle on 10 June 1899 bound for Port Townsend. They arrived at St. Michael, Alaska on 6 July 1899. The Nunivak was ordered to be put up for sale on 3 May 1901, after serving less than two years. This publication includes Cantwell's narrative of operations. Also includes sections on general information on the Yukon River, mines and mining, ethnological notes on the habits and customs of the natives, explorations of both the Koyukuk and Dall Rivers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 325. Green pebble-grain cloth, blindstamped, with gilt spine lettering. Amply illustrated throughout with b&w photo reproductions. A few pages were evidently attached to each other with slight dampening, with insignificant abrasion to those pages, not affecting text. That said, a handsome copy with bright shelf appeal. The Nunivak was dispatched to collect revenue and to offer law-and-order to the large gold rush populations that filled the Yukon Valley. Cantwell's narrative encompasses incidents of duty for three seasons. Includes a comparative Eskimo and Ingalik vocabularies; a list of vessels engaged in commerce; a reconnaissance of the Dall River, the Koyukuk River, and the Koyukuk Trail.