Title:
Two in the Far North
JLCTITLE245:
Margaret E. Murie ; illustrations by Olaus J. Murie ; with a new foreword by Terry Tempest Williams.
Personal Author:
Edition:
5th ed.
Publication Information:
Anchorage ; Seattle ; Portland : Alaska Northwest Books, 1997, c1957.
Physical Description:
369 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780882404899
General Note:
Autobiographical.
Personal Subject:
Contents:
Preface -- Foreword / by Terry Tempest Williams -- pt. 1. Fairbanks -- 1. To the North -- 2. Freeze-up -- 3. The town -- 4. Winter -- 5. Mail day -- 6. Spring -- 7. Summer -- 8. The trail -- 9. And over the mountains -- pt. 2. The Upper Koyukuk -- 10. Home to romance -- 11. Anvik -- 12. Nulato -- 13. Willow River -- 14. Alatna -- 15. "And beyond" -- 16. Bettles -- 17. One day of it -- 18. On the river ice -- 19. Wiseman -- 20. The mountains -- 21. Southward -- pt. 3. The Old Crow River -- 22. Tanana and Yukon -- 23. The Porcupine -- 24. The Old Crow -- 25. By main strength -- Geese -- Downstream -- pt. 4. Sheenjek -- 28. North again -- 29. At Lobo Lake -- 30. Both sides of the River -- 31. Up the valley -- 32. Tundra and mountain -- 33. Caribou -- 34. To the head of the river -- 35. Autumn in August -- pt. 5. Return to the mountains -- 36. Again north -- 37. Sheenjek again -- pt. 6. Afterward -- 38. 1967 Alaska -- 39. Another New Alaska: 1975 -- Outside: 1975-1989.