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Here Comes the Polly A biography of a Russian built gunboat By Ethel Anderson Be
Here Comes the Polly A biography of a Russian built gunboat By Ethel Anderson Becker. Photographs by Hegg, Curtis, Nowell +
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1971
First edition
128 pages. Indexed.
By Ethel Anderson Becker author ofA Treasury of Alaskans
Exciting Alaska history? Aiyev kosmoska! There is the "Great Politkofsky"- sturdy, proud protector of the fur fleet. With banners flying and vodka flowing she slipped down the shipways in Sitka and set a roving, swashbuckling course through the icy seas until the Russian flag came down.
An exciting story of the northern people? There were the Aleuts in their kayaks and Russians in their whale boats, braving the Arctic waters for seal and otter . . . the color of Sitka under the Russian lords as the church bells tolled joy and tragedy . . . native women squatting on the sands to sew up skins of walrus and sea cow ... storms and hordes of gold hunters in Nome.
Exciting Seattle history? There is the pioneer settlement on Puget Sound brawling and booming its way to heady promise, sending logs to market and shiploads of adventurers north. And there's the Polly, back from San Francisco with new paint, new flag, new engines to drive her paddles . . . then all too soon "on the beach." And viewing all this drama and forest demolition with misgivings is Chief Sealth moving solemnly from one Indian village to another, invoking the Great Spirit.
In a sense Ethel Becker presents all these stirring events from the foredeck of the Politkofslcy, the gunboat built by the Russians for the Bering Sea fur trade . . . the ship that led a proud life until the Russian flag fell in the North, then suffered indignity as a work boat and finally degradation on the beach at Nome.
This is a sharp, colorful story of a wild period in the early days of our Northwest.
Bringing all this into sharp focus is Ethel Becker's worthy and historically important collection of photographs - those of E. A. Hegg, Asahel Curtis and F. H. Nowell, venturesome craftsmen who followed the migration from Seattle to Nome ... into Russian churches and Aleut skin tents . . . into gold panners' diggings and lighters bringing passengers ashore at Nome from the Eliza
Anderson, Victoria and Bailey Gatzert. Here comes the Polly!
Make her welcome in your home.
CHAPTER 1.Protector of the Fur Fleet CHAPTER 2.Russian Flag Ceases to Wave CHAPTER 3.The Polly Cruises South CHAPTER 4.Back to Puget Sound CHAPTER 5.Hard Times for the Polly CHAPTER 6.Northward for Gold INDEX
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