Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaska Panhandle

The Alaska Boundary was one of the most controversial boundaries to be drawn between Canada and the United States, and its demarcation proved a dangerous undertaking to surveyors from both countries. Green deals with the history of the Alaska Boundary from its definition in the Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825 up to 1920, when the main surveys were completed. He balances an account of the purely political issues involved with the stirring first-hand reports of surveyors in the field. 6.5x9.5", xvii+214 pp., b&w maps, 24 pp. b&w photographs.