Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 October 2023
- ISBN 9781496236906
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages222 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 photographs, 2 illustrations, 3 maps, index 500
Categories
History of America
Hiking, mountain climbing (theory and practice)
Biographies, correspondences, diaries
Cultural anthropology
History of America (charity campaign)
Hiking, mountain climbing (theory and practice) (charity campaign)
Biographies, correspondences, diaries (charity campaign)
Cultural anthropology (charity campaign)
Long description:
2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association
2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska’s Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913.
Walter’s strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded, and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska.
Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today’s readers.
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2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska’s Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913.
Walter’s strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded, and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska.
Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today’s readers.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 2. On the River and on the Trail with Archdeacon Stuck
Chapter 3. Ascent of Denali
Chapter 4. Mount Hermon School
Chapter 5. Return to Alaska
Chapter 6. The Winter Circuit
Chapter 7. Summer and Fall 1918
Epilogue: Harper’s Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 2. On the River and on the Trail with Archdeacon Stuck
Chapter 3. Ascent of Denali
Chapter 4. Mount Hermon School
Chapter 5. Return to Alaska
Chapter 6. The Winter Circuit
Chapter 7. Summer and Fall 1918
Epilogue: Harper’s Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
