Successive waves of traders, trappers, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes. This book presents the history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska that shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries.

Colorful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land "remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions. Melody Webb, who spent time in the Yukon wilderness before writing this book, is the assistant superintendent of Teton National Park.