Allusions/references To Actual History, Geography and Current Science
Michener uses factual people or places in fictional events. He also invents characters and places like any other novelist.
- Vitus Bering and the Bering Strait
- Alexander Andreyevich Baranov
- James Cook
- Kodiak Island
- The Tlingit people
- Battle of Sitka
- Dmitri Petrovich Maksutov
- The Yukon River
- The Reverend Sheldon Jackson
- The settlement in Matanuska Valley
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