Review of Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska 1898-1934 by Preston Jones Pacific Historical Review 77.2 (May 2008), 330-332.

Adam Arenson, University of Texas at El Paso

Abstract

A review of Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska 1898-1934, an extremely valuable portrait of an Alaskan community, seemingly on the edge of the world but dreaming of itself as an ordinary American town.