| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

Travels among the Dena: Exploring Alaska's Yukon Valley. By Frederica de Laguna. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. xxi + 369 pp. $29.95.)

Travels among the Dena is a fascinating account of an archaeological reconnaissance of the Yukon Valley in 1935, in the midst of the Depression. While the purpose of the expedition was to locate prehistoric sites left by "First Americans," the real story is her memoir of that trip, including the people she met. 1

Writing in an easy, free-flowing prose, de Laguna describes the complicated logistics of a three-month expedition in a roadless, isolated land. She and her team of three men designed and built their own skiffs and sewed their own custom-fit tents with elaborate mosquito netting (essential in the days before insect repellent). Buying, freighting, and storing the equipment, food, and tools along the way became a time-consuming and labor-intensive exercise. Since the University of Pennsylvania Museum could provide only limited funds, the expedition constantly worried about having adequate resources. . . .

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