THE ALASKA 'FRONTIER 



By Thomas Willing Balch, A. B. (Harvard) 



Member of the Philadelphia Bar 



'"PHIS BOOK, gives a complete account up to igo^ of all 

 the facts relating to the Alaska boundary question, in- 

 cluding the negotiations preceding the Anglo-Russian Treaty 

 of 1825, the subsequent official acts of the various interested 

 governments, the purchase of Alaska by the United States, the 

 International Law governing the case, and reproductions of 

 twenty-eight maps, some of them very rare. To collect the 

 material upon which this book is based the author traveled 

 as far as Alaska and St. Petersburg. 



"In Mr. Balch's book the main threads of evidence are woven into a conclusive 

 whole, which should be in the hands of all interested, and the publication of which 

 is of general importance at the present time." — The New York Evening Post, April /j, 

 1903. 



"This book . . . constitutes, all things considered, the most effective, ac- 

 cumulative, and crushing blow thus far dealt the Canadian claim." — Philadelphia 

 Press, February 22, J903. 



"The work of Mr. Balch ... is by far the fullest and best presentation of 

 the American case which has ever been made, and will be ot great value to the counsel 

 who will appear for the United States before the Boundary Commission." — Seattle Post- 

 Intelligencer, April 2, 1903. 



"If there is an}- one who has any doubt as to the validity of the American 

 claim to all the sinuosities of the coast north of 54-40, it is safe to say that the doubt 

 could never survive a careful reading of 'The Alaska Frontier.'" — Daily Alaskan, 

 Skagway, April 16, 1903. 



2/2 pages, large 8vo. 

 Bound in cloth, price $2.00 net 



ALLEN, LANE & SCOTT 



121 1-1213 Clover St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



