ON THE SITE OF THE OLD THLINGET FORT

To know Alaska one must first know Sitka, the quaint
old Russian capital where the history of the Northland
was made.
Here from his stockaded log castle on the Keekor,
Alexander Baranov, dare-devil little Iron Governor of
the fur colonies, once ruled the North Pacific, and spun
a web of power and commerce that reached to every
corner of the world.
Here I lived and adventured happily and wrote this
book to show an A laskan’s Alaska of to-day, where the
modernity of aeroplane and radio joins hands with the
romance of this land that is steeped in the braveries and
splendour of an imperial Russian past.