Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
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Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
Episode 2 Bonus: Sophie Frets on Cry of the Wild Ram
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Episode 2 Bonus: Sophie Frets on Cry of the Wild Ram
Today's special bonus episode of The Alaska Myth features an extended conversation with Sophie Frets about her memories of Cry of the Wild Ram. Sophie appeared in Episode 2 of The Alaska Myth: Kodiak Remembers. Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
The Alaska Myth
Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
