AUTHOR’S NOTE: A number of people (Dorothy Gray, Marion Nelson and Danielle Stamm, for example) have assisted me in gathering information for this article, but I want to single out one individual for special acknowledgement. Without the Russian-language translations and summaries provided by Katherine Arndt, the bibliographer and curator of rare books at the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, I would have been without at lea…