Frank Carpenter's Geographical Reader

Carpenter, Frank G.
NORTH AMERICA.
Carpenter's Geographical Reader.
New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: American Book Company, c1898.
352 pp.
old book item# 12-1898cgr

Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) was a journalist, traveler, and the author of books on geography, including the Carpenter's Geographic Readers, standard texts used in American schools for forty years. Carpenter traveled throughout Alaska in the 1910s, where he took many photographs documenting the territory's stunning natural beauty, plants and wildlife, native peoples, and important economic activities such as fishing and mining.