Arctic Exodus : The Last Great Trail Drive

by Dick North

• ISBN13: 9781592286683
• ISBN10: 1592286682
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

The story of a seventy-year-old man, three thousand reindeer, and a fifteen-hundred-mile trail drive across Alaska.

Author Biography

Dick North has lived in the North since 1963 and is currently a historical consultant and curator of the Jack London Interpretation Center in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. He is also the author of The Mad Trapper of Rat River and The Lost Patrol.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Prologue	ix
PART ONE
1 The Great Want	1	(17)
2 A Potential Solution	18	(23)
3 Preparations	41	(24)
PART TWO
The First Year
4 Off on the Wrong Foot	65	(22)
5 Reindeer Station	87	(15)
6 Interval on the Kobuk	102	(15)
The Second Year
7 Across the Mountains	117	(23)
8 Mutiny	140	(21)
The Third Year
9 Backtracking	161	(16)
10 A Stranger Arrives	177	(16)
The Fourth Year
11 Stampede	193	(16)
12 Too Long on the Trail	209	(18)
The Fifth Year
13 Defeat at Manixa's	227	(21)
14 The Final Crossing	248	(15)
Epilogue	263	(2)
Endnotes	265	(6)
Bibliography	271	(5)
Acknowledgements	276	(5)
Index of Personal Names	281