Information for Prosective Settlers in Alaska Circular No. 1 (Revised)

Washington, D. C.: U. S. Deparment of Agriculture. Very Good+. 1917. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations & Maps; This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and stapled spine. The covers have some light edge wear, rubbing and nicking. There are two small tears, to the top rear cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There are several pages of black and white photos. The map at the rear of the book is in clean, bright condition. "The first two agricultural experiment stations were at Kodiak and Sitka, which would eventually become the headquarters station and Georgeson’s home. At first Dr. Georgeson rented a small house for his office at Sitka. Governor J. G. Brady offered his own barn to house the station’s oxen for the winter of 1898-1899, and in an interview for Sunset magazine in 1928, Dr. Georgeson explained how he borrowed patches of land from the settlers around Sitka until he could clear and drain enough land to plant crops for the experiment station: “My plots were scattered all over the village and having insecure fences, or no fences at all, the local boys, cows, pigs and tame rabbits rollicked joyously through them. Hens, which in Sitka fly like seagulls, flocked to the feast I had unwittingly prepared for them, and when, by chance, they overlooked anything, the seeds came up to become the playthings of diabolical ravens, who, with almost human malice, pulled up the little plants merely to inspect their other ends. ”" (from Alaskan History Magazine -July/Aug 2020) .