Wesley Earl Dunkle : Alaska's Flying Miner

by Hawley, Charles Caldwell; Hawley, C. C.

• ISBN13: 9780870817236
• ISBN10: 087081723X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

In Wesley Earl Dunkle: Alaska's Flying Miner, Charles Caldwell Hawley tells the story of a pioneering miner and aviator who arrived in Alaska in 1910 equipped with an optimistic belief in the transformative power of technology. As a graduate of Yale's prestigious Sheffield Scientific School, Dunkle managed copper mines for such captains of industry as J.P. Morgan and the Guggenheims and developed what would eventually become Alaska Airlines.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Heritage and Education	p. 1
Alaska in the Good Years	p. 13
Apprentice, Scout, and Economic Geologist	p. 29
Life and Geologic Challenges at Kennicott	p. 51
Scouting for Birch	p. 69
From Pier 2, Port of Seattle, to Africa	p. 83
Pardners Mines and the Lucky Shot	p. 101
Alaska's Flying Miner	p. 117
A Sure Cure for Depression	p. 135
The Golden Zone	p. 147
Placer Gold, Coal, and Postwar Reality	p. 169
One More Experiment	p. 191
Epilogue	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Glossary of Mining and Geologic Terms	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 261
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