Last Frontier: Incredible Tales Of Survival, Exploration, And Adventure From Alaska Magazine [Paperback]

Since 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquakes, tidal waves, grizzly and polar bear attacks, the Russian influence, the Gold Rush, the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians during World War II, hunting and fishing, the lives of sourdoughs, village life, and much more,The Last Frontiertruly captures the essence of our largest state.

Other chapters include the tale of the Eskimo commercial pilot, flying villagers across the Arctic. Or the one about the young woman who conducted the 1940 census in the Interior by dog team. Or the story about the family who placed their automobile on a raft, hooked paddles to the axles, and steered their home-built paddle-wheeler down the Yukon River to the first road-whereupon they removed the car from the barge, and drove home to Nebraska.Other stories you won't want to miss in this book include: Don Sheldon's floatplane rescue of eight men from white water; the mystery of Klutuk, the beast of the tundra; how Julie Collins's sled dog saved her life; the trials and tribulations of a nurse running a hospital on the arctic coast in 1921; an Athabascan writer interviews her grandmother, a medicine woman; newsworthy events across the state and much, much more.JILL SHEPHERDhas worked for The Tundra Times, The Anchorage Times, and has spent the last twenty years at Alaska magazine.Preface
Introduction
1. The Wolf Pack by F. W. Gabler, January 1935
2. Tundra Territory by Victor Shaw, December, 1935
3. Polar Fury by Charles Madsen, April 1936
4, Nome Cafe by A. F. Raynor, June 1936
5. Every Inch A King by Robert A. Henning, October 1936
6. Arctic Trapper by Frank North, November 1936
7. Bush Maddness by S. A. Camp, November 1939
8. The People of Nome Were Scandalized by John B. Wallace, December 1939
9. Main Trails and Bypaths, December 1942
10. Main Trails and Bypaths, February 1043
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