Alaska S Skyboys

Author : Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806228

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Alaska's Skyboys by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth Pdf

This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to settlers’ covered wagons—the reality was that aviation catapulted Alaska onto a modern, global stage; the federal government subsidized aviation’s growth in the territory as part of the Cold War defense against the Soviet Union. Through personal stories, industry publications, and news accounts, historian Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth uncovers the ways that Alaska’s aviation growth was downplayed in order to perpetuate the myth of the cowboy spirit and the desire to tame what many considered to be the last frontier.

Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557836965

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The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 by Glenn Young Pdf

A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.

Author : Dean Littlepage
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594850577

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Steller's Island by Dean Littlepage Pdf

History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.

Author : Steve Levi
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594332869

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Cowboys of the Sky by Steve Levi Pdf

For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears sleeping in the cargo compartment. Ever since aviation came to Alaska planes have been far more important than cars or truck to the residents of the far-flung bush communities. In Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots, humorist and historian Steven C. Levi takes you on a wild ride through the heyday of aviation in Alaska, from the golden years, before federal regulations curbed the more dangerous and outlandish flying practices, all the way to the present. Through photographs and anecdotes, you'll meet brave and colorful pilots, the true cowboys of the sky who carved the face of America's Last Frontier.

Author : ROBERT F. GRIGGS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033218367

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VALLEY OF TEN THOUSAND SMOKES by ROBERT F. GRIGGS Pdf

Author : Eddie D. Wilcoxen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780615143125

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Oklahoma Proud! by Eddie D. Wilcoxen Pdf

Enjoy stories of Oklahoma from the Great Chiefs to the Land Run! Travel down Historic Route 66, visit the Oil Boom, and discover the people, places, history, and feeling of the West through the poetry of Eddie D. Wilcoxen. Celebrate the Oklahoma Centennial with this collection of heartwarming historical Oklahoma poetry you will be glad to share with your family and friends.

Author : Dan O'Neill
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780786738175

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The Last Giant of Beringia by Dan O'Neill Pdf

The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since Jose de Acosta, a Spanish missionary working in Mexico and Peru, first proposed the idea of a connection between the continents in 1589. But proof of the land bridge - now named Beringia after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering - eluded scientists until an inquiring geologist named Dave Hopkins emerged from rural New England and set himself to the task of solving the mystery. Through the life story of Hopkins, The Last Giant of Beringia reveals the fascinating science detective story that at last confirmed the existence of the land bridge that served as the intercontinental migration route for such massive Ice Age beasts as woolly mammoths, steppe bison, giant stag-moose, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and saber-toothed cats - and for the first humans to enter the New World from Asia. After proving unambiguously that the land bridge existed, Hopkins went on to show that the Beringian landscape cannot have been the "polar desert" that many had claimed, but provided forage enough to sustain a diverse menagerie of Ice Age behemoths.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049942790

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199997206

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Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath by Barbara Alice Mann Pdf

Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.

Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496204042

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Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son by Mary F. Ehrlander Pdf

Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America's tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska's Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913. Walter's strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska. Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today's readers.

Author : Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571104960

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Nonfiction Mentor Texts by Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli Pdf

Guides teachers through a variety of projects, samples, and classroom anecdotes that demonstrate how teachers can help students become more effective writers of good nonfiction.

Author : Nick Jans
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780882408651

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The Last Light Breaking by Nick Jans Pdf

From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people--the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture on the cusp of change. Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power, the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the far North. With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together these 23 essays with strands of native American narrative, making vivid a place where wolves and grizzlies still roam free, hunters follow the caribou, and old women cast their nets in the dust as they have for countless generations. But looming on the horizon is the world of roads and modern technology; the future has already arrived in the form of stop signs, computers, and satellite dishes. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting timeless landscape.

Author : Deborah Baley Brevoort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Grief
ISBN : UCSC:32106018736261

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The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Baley Brevoort Pdf

THE STORY: A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son's remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bluegrass music
ISBN : UCSC:32106020140981

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Bluegrass Unlimited by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1942-11
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015865996

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New Horizons by Anonim Pdf