# The Young Alaskans

The Young Alaskans by Emerson Hough has 59,435 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Emerson Hough](https://musael.com/books/authors/emerson-hough.md) (1857–1923)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 59,435
- **Reading time:** 3 h 58 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 23 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 57 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 58 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 18 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Young Alaskans is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25494

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 59,435
- Dialogue: 31% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25494 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6213282W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25494

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-young-alaskans