Ella Higginson: 3 books

“Alaska, the Great Country” is a 1908 novel by E. Higginson. Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862 – 1940) was an prominent American author famous for her award-winning poetry, fiction, and essays set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She was a prolific writer, producing two collections...

Ella Higginson (1861–1940) was an American writer. She became the poet laureate of Washington State in 1931.  In addition to her poetry, she also published novels and short story collections, including The Flower that Grew in the Sand (1896), The Forest Orchid and Other Stories (1897), Mariella-of-Out-West (1902), Alaska the Great Country, and From the Land of Snow Pearls.

When the Russians first came to the island of Unalaska, they were told that a vast country lay to the eastward and that its name was Al-ay-ek-sa. Their own island the Aleuts called Nagun-Alayeksa, meaning "the land lying near Alayeksa."  The Russians in time came to call the country...