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• ISBN: 9781575101729(pbk.)
• Physical Description: x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Missoula, Montana : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc., [2015]

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1. Eulogy for a hunter -- 2. Bill Brody and the grizzly bear -- 3. Fannie Quigley -- 4. Tide North -- 5. Laurence of Alaska -- 6. Justice -- 7. Cap Lathrop -- 8. The wreck of the S.S. Yukon -- 9. I sailed for salmon in Bristol Bay -- 10. A lost submarine-and an American hero -- 11. A miner alone -- 12. Alaskana -- 13. Moose I remember -- 14. Smoky -- 15. A dog's plea -- 16. Bradley marsh -- 17. Nuggets of Alaska history-1946 -- 18. Saga of the ice ship Bear -- 19. The legendary schooner King and Winge -- 20. Hell on East Amatuli Island -- 21. Spirit of avaiation deeply rooted in Alaska history -- 22. Alaska's pioneers of the sky -- 23. John Walatka, bush pilot -- 24. Ed Young, forgotten bush pilot -- 25. Russell Merrill, pioneer pilot -- 26. Planes, radios and awed residents -- 27. Locating a lost airplane -- 28. Go to Peterson -- 29. The Bosworth incident -- 30. Murders in Koyukuk country -- 31. The Lomens of Nome -- 32. Moments of war-The Aleutian campaign of WWII -- 33. Return of the Sea Otter -- 34. A quarter century of moose -- 35. Alaska's giant deep-freeze -- 36. Horse troughs with motors -- 37. The legendary Squeaky Anderson.

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