The Last Frontier; Incredible Tales of Survival, Exploration, and Adventure from Alaska Magazine

by Alaska Magazine; Jill Shepherd

• ISBN13: 9781585745852
• ISBN10: 1585745855
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

The best writing from 65 years of "Alaska "Magazine.

Author Biography

JILL SHEPHERD has worked for The Tundra Times, The Anchorage Times, and has spent the last twenty years at Alaska magazine.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	xi
The Wolf Pack	1	(7)
F. W. Gabler
Tundra Terror	8	(6)
Victor Shaw
Polar Fury	14	(5)
Charles Madsen
Nome Cafe	19	(5)
A. F. Raynor
Every Inch A King	24	(5)
Robert A. Henning
Arctic Trapper	29	(10)
Frank North
Bush Madness	39	(10)
S. A. Camp
The People of Nome Were Scandalized	49	(8)
John B. Wallace
Main Trails and Bypaths December 1942	57	(2)
Main Trails and Bypaths February 1943	59	(2)
I Was Queen of the Klondike	61	(12)
Kate Rockwell Matson
On the Ice-Pack's Rim	73	(8)
Florence C. Dakin
Woman on the Dalton Trial	81	(22)
Della Murray Banks
Main Trails and Bypaths December 1952	103	(2)
None So Big	105	(6)
Dolly Connelly
The Mystery of the Billiken	111	(6)
Dorothy Jean Ray
Alaska Terror	117	(4)
Art Kennedy
Huslia's Hole Hunters	121	(5)
Mike Cline
There Were Wolves...All Around Me	126	(3)
Paul Kinksteater
Encased in Ice, I Nearly Drowned	129	(4)
Frank W. Johnson
Rescue From Devil's Canyon	133	(6)
James D. Greiner
My Sunset Moose	139	(7)
Charles G. Mayse
How I Killed the World's Largest Brown Bear	146	(5)
Roy R. Lindsley
A Trapper Leaves the Country	151	(5)
Scott Fisher
Avalanche	156	(4)
Tim Moerlein
Acceptance	160	(3)
Mike Davis
Of Traps and Treasures--Klutuk	163	(8)
Fred Hatfield
Reluctant Hero	171	(5)
Julie Collins
Chernofski Sheep Ranch	176	(7)
Cora Holmes
Abercrombie's Barrow Ballet	183	(3)
Robert H. Redding
A Melody for Christmas	186	(5)
Afton Blanc
Mt. McKinley Joe	191	(5)
Elizabeth J. Fallon
Dog Team Census	196	(6)
Hana Yasuda Kangas
My Last Grizzly	202	(6)
Nick Jans
Medicine Woman	208	(6)
Marilyn Savage
Adventures in Night Fishing	214	(4)
Ken Marsh
Zapped on Rainbow Mountain	218	(3)
Yvonne Lindblom
Ruth Moulton
Forgotten Pioneers	221	(2)
Lael Morgan
Big Trouble on the ``Wideload''	223	(8)
Chris Schelb
Polar Bare Swim	231	(3)
William L. Earl
The Last Spear Hunt	234	(6)
Sidney Huntington
With Trusting Eyes Behind Me	240	(5)
Ellen Paneok
Clutter	245	(3)
Carol Sturgulewski
Kingdom of Clean-Enough	248	(3)
Leslie Leyland Fields
Jess's Ark	251	(8)
Carol Knight Copeland
Raven	259	(3)
Sherry Simpson
Fishing the Combat Zone	262	(6)
Les Palmer
A Few Mosquito Bites	268	(3)
Jim Rearden
Social Climber	271	(5)
Martha Black
The Bear and the Bride	276	(4)
Sidney Huntington
The Eels Are Here	280	(3)
Frank J. Keim
An Orca Reunion	283	(3)
Mark S. Decker
Tracked by a Bear	286	(4)
Dana Stabenow
Crisis of Confidence	290	(5)
Dan Randle
The First Ever Nome Moose Nugget Drop	295	(3)
Lew Tobin
Green Seas, White Ice	298	(3)
Toby Sullivan
The Cruel Chronometer	301	(2)
Andy Hall
Mary Joyce's Extraordinary Adventure	303
Joan Pardes