Alaska Cruise 1909

Cruise Alaska aboard the Steamer Northwestern

Discover what it was like to travel to Alaska in the early 1900s.

These are the stories told by America's writers and editors as they visited Alaska's cities, glaciers, mines and farmlands at the end of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909.

"There is a subtle illusive, intangible something that grips the heart of the visitor to Alaska."

The delightful story, told in the voice of turn-of-the-century America and full of humor as well as poignan...