Title:
The last frontier : incredible tales of survival, exploration and adventure from Alaska Magazine
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Jill Shepherd.
Publication Information:
Guilford, Conn. : The Lyons Press, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
xv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781592285686
9781585745852
General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The wolf pack / F.W. Gabler, January 1935 -- 2. Tundra terror / Victor Shaw, December 1935 -- 3. Polar fury / Charles Madsen, April 1936 -- 4. Nome Café / A.F. Raynor, June 1936 -- 5. Every inch a King / Robert A. Henning, October 1936 -- 6. Arctic trapper / Frank North, November 1939 -- 7. Bush madness / S.A. Camp, November 1939 -- 8. The people of Nome were scandalized / John B. Wallace, December 1939 -- 9. Main trails and bypaths, December 1942 -- 10. Main trails and bypaths, February 1943 -- 11. I was Queen of the Klondike / Kate Rockwell Matson, August 1944 -- 12. On the ice-pack's rim / Florence C. Dakin, November 1944 -- 13. Woman on the Dalton Trail / Della Murray Banks, January 1945 -- 14. Main trails and bypaths, December 1952 -- 15. None so big / Dolly Connelly, August 1958.
16. The mystery of the Billiken / Dorothy Jean Ray, September 1960 -- 17. Alaska terror / Art Kennedy, August 1965 -- 18. Huslia's hole hunters / Mike Cline, June 1966 -- 19. There were wolves ... all around me / Paul Kinksteater, October 1967 -- 20. Encased in ice, I nearly drowned / Frank W. Johnson, February 1974 -- 21. Rescue from Devil's Canyon / James D. Greiner, October 1974 -- 22. My sunset moose / Charles G. Mayse, October 1975 -- 23. How I killed the world's largest brown bear / Roy R. Lindsey, January 1978 -- 24. A trapper leaves the country / Scott Fisher, June 1981 -- 25. Avalanche / Tim Moerlein, March 1982 -- 26. Acceptance / Mike Davis, April 1982 -- 27. Of traps and treasures -- Klutuk / Fred Hatfield, September 1984 -- 28. Reluctant hero / Julie Collins, December 1984 -- 29. Chernofski Sheep Ranch / Cora Holmes, April 1985 -- 30. Abercrombie's barrow ballet / Robert H. Redding, December 1985 -- 31. A melody for Christmas / Afton Blanc, December 1987 -- 32. Mt. McKinley Joe / Elizabeth J. Fallon, November 1989.
33. Dong team census / Hana Yasuda Kangas, January 1990 -- 34. My last grizzly / Nick Jans, May 1990 -- 35. Medicine woman / Marilyn Savage, June 1990 -- 36. Adventures in night fishing / Ken Marsh, April 1991 -- 37. Zapped on Rainbow Mountain / Yvonne Lindblom and Ruth Moulton, October 1991 -- 38. Forgotten pioneers / Lael Morgan, February 1992 -- 39. Big trouble on the "wideload" / Chris Schelb, September 1994 -- 40. Polar bare swim / William L. Earl, December 1994/January 1995 -- 41. The last spear hunt / Sidney Huntington, September 1995 -- 42. With trusting eyes behind me / Ellen Paneok, February 1996 -- 43. Clutter / Carol Sturgulewski, October 1996 -- 44. Kingdom of Clean-Enough / Leslie Leyland Fields, May/June 1997 -- 45. Jess's ark / Carol Knight Copeland, September 1997 -- 46. Raven / Sherry Simpson, September 1997.
47. Fishing the Combat Zone / Les Palmer, April 1998 -- 48. A few mosquito bites / Jim Rearden, October 1998 -- 49. Social climber / Martha Black, August 1999 -- 50. The bear and the bride / Sidney Huntington, September 1999 -- 51. The eels are here / Frank J. Keim, December 1999/January 2000 -- 52. An orca reunion / Mark S. Decker, February 2000 -- 53. Tracked by a bear / Dana Stabenow, February 2000 -- 54. Crisis of confidence / Dan Randle, f August 2000 -- 55. The first ever Nome Moose Nugget Drop / Lew Tobin, November 2000 -- 56. Green seas, white ice / Toby Sullivan, March 2001 -- 57. The cruel chronometer / Andy Hall, July 2001 -- 58. Mary Joyce's extraordinary adventure / Joan Pardes, March 2002 -- Index.