Fictional Accounts
Louis L'Amour's novel "Sitka" describes conflict between the Russian fur trading empire and Yankee settlers.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 alternate-history novel by Michael Chabon about a Jewish Yiddish-speaking territory in Sitka, including most of Baranov Island. The novel proceeds from the counter-factual premise that the Slattery Report had actually been implemented.
Local Author John Straley has written a number of mystery novels set on and around Baranof Island.
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