# Short Sketches from Oldest America

Author: Driggs, John B. (John Beach), 1852-1914

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24391

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Short+Sketches+from+Oldest+America+Driggs&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

From the small size of this volume, one would hardly realize, perhaps, what an immense amount of labor and patient research its writing must necessarily represent. The author, who was first sent to northwestern Alaska in the summer of 1890, and who, by the bye, has, with the exception of two vacations of a year each, been constantly at his post in that bleak country ever since, found himself one day landed, with his possessions, upon the inhospitable sea-beach of the Point Hope peninsula, where for weeks he was compelled to shelter himself from wind and rain, as best he could, in an improvised tent made of barrels and boxes with canvas thrown over them. Finally, the carpenters of some of...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-sketches-from-oldest-america-24391/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-sketches-from-oldest-america-24391/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-sketches-from-oldest-america-24391/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-sketches-from-oldest-america-24391/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-sketches-from-oldest-america-24391/chapters/5/index.md)