Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736755803
Cold Mountain Path
Tom Kizzia
Cold Mountain Path The Ghost Town Decades Of Mccarthy Kennecott Alaska
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Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Porphyry Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1736755811
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska by Tom Kizzia Pdf
We all have ghost towns. Impermanent places we dream of returning to. Here was Alaska's. In 1938, the last copper train left the Wrangell Mountains. But the spirit of the old days-free-wheeling, self-reliant, bounty-blessed-lived on in the remote town of McCarthy. The valley's few holdouts were joined over time by a gallery of prospectors, grifters, back-to-the-landers, dreamers, escape artists, hippies, speculators, preachers, and outlaws. While the rest of Alaska boomed in the new oil age, an old and makeshift way of life persisted against the quiet undertow of the past, that ebbing toward the wilderness that was here before us. Then the modern world found its way back in. A road, a bridge, a national park. A mass shooting that left six dead. Cold Mountain Path is a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal--a rollicking local history that is also a lyrical exploration of time, loss, and change. . . and a pulsating account of the morning that brought Alaska's ghost town decades to an end. Tom Kizzia's previous book, Pilgrim's Wilderness, was an Amazon Top-Ten Book of the Year and was named Alaska's best True Crime book by the New York Times. Kizzia has written for The New Yorker and was a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He has a place of his own near McCarthy.
Pilgrim's Wilderness
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307587831
Pilgrim's Wilderness by Tom Kizzia Pdf
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
The Wake of the Unseen Object
Tom Kizzia
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781602234307
The Wake of the Unseen Object by Tom Kizzia Pdf
A journey to Alaska’s remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup’ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely contemporary individuals with deep longings and connection to the land and to their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system, first published in 1991, has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities. Wake of the Unseen Object is now considered some of the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska. This new edition includes an updated introduction by the author, looking at what remains the same after thirty years and what is different—both in Alaska, and in the expectations placed on a reporter visiting from another world.
Legacy of the Chief
Ronald N. Simpson
Author : Ronald N. Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1888125950
Legacy of the Chief by Ronald N. Simpson Pdf
Ahtna Chief Nicolai and his grandsons at the time of historic Kennecott Copper and its Copper River and Northwestern Railway in the Territory of Alaska
Down the Great Unknown
Edward Dolnick
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061760341
Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick Pdf
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
Paw Prints in the Snow: Alaska, Solitude, and a Dog Named Woody
Ward Serrill
Author : Ward Serrill
Publisher : Girl Friday Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1954854188
Paw Prints in the Snow: Alaska, Solitude, and a Dog Named Woody by Ward Serrill Pdf
An adventure-driven Alaskan memoir with an extraordinary dog. From a remote, abandoned cabin by the ocean where orcas breeched, beneath thirteen feet of rain, a remarkable yellow Labrador named Woody helped a runaway from the corridors of corporate America seek a fierce freedom in the Alaskan wilds. Award-winning director Ward Serrill (The Heart of the Game) discovered his Shakri-La, sixteen miles from the nearest town, and accessible only by boat, in the remote Alaskan wilderness. This little hut near a waterfall and next to the ocean is where he and Woody took up their vigil. This years-long experiment in solitude and immersion in the natural world, with Woody as his only companion, took Serrill down some dark paths, forcing him to confront the reality and the emotional cost of running away all his life. By facing his darkness, he discovers an unexplored region of his heart opened by grief that offers the true possibility of belonging.
Overthrow
Stephen Kinzer
Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429905374
Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer Pdf
Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not always to its own benefit "Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the latest, though perhaps not the last, example of the dangers inherent in these operations. In Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer tells the stories of the audacious politicians, spies, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers. He also shows that the U.S. government has often pursued these operations without understanding the countries involved; as a result, many of them have had disastrous long-term consequences. In a compelling and provocative history that takes readers to fourteen countries, including Cuba, Iran, South Vietnam, Chile, and Iraq, Kinzer surveys modern American history from a new and often surprising perspective. "Detailed, passionate and convincing . . . [with] the pace and grip of a good thriller." -- Anatol Lieven, The New York Times Book Review
The International Handbook of Political Ecology
Raymond L Bryant
Author : Raymond L Bryant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857936172
The International Handbook of Political Ecology by Raymond L Bryant Pdf
The International Handbook of Political Ecology features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, iss
Cold Mountain
Hanshan,Columbia University
Author : Hanshan,Columbia University
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 0231034490
Cold Mountain by Hanshan,Columbia University Pdf
Metal Deposits in Relation to Plate Tectonics
Frederick J. Sawkins
Author : Frederick J. Sawkins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662086810
Metal Deposits in Relation to Plate Tectonics by Frederick J. Sawkins Pdf
In this book metal deposits, in particular those of non-ferrous and precious metals, are classified and analyzed in terms of their plate tectonic settings. This approach allows a meaningful treatment of metal deposits of different types and provides significant insights into both their genesis and formative environments. The updated 2nd edition incorporates the most significant advances in economic geology of the last 5 years. Particular attention is paid to the geological settings and generative models of gold deposits of all kinds.
A Year in the National Parks
Stefanie Payne,Jonathan Irish
Author : Stefanie Payne,Jonathan Irish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069292678X
A Year in the National Parks by Stefanie Payne,Jonathan Irish Pdf
On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
A Thousand Trails Home
Seth Kantner
Author : Seth Kantner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594859717
A Thousand Trails Home by Seth Kantner Pdf
2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Environmental/Ecology 2022 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Natural History Literature "A Thousand Trails Home is a book of supernal majesty, a book to break and restore your heart. Seth Kantner’s devotion to the living pulse and unity of the skein of wonder that is the Alaskan wilderness haunts and inspires me." -- Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman Bestselling, award-winning author of Ordinary Wolves, a debut novel Publisher’s Weekly called “a tour de force” Conservation-based story of changing Arctic from an on-the-ground perpective Features full-color photography throughout A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolves around the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction—a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.
Living with Lead
Bradley D. Snow
Author : Bradley D. Snow
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822982791
Living with Lead by Bradley D. Snow Pdf
The Coeur d’Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe’s richest silver district and also one of the nation’s biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d’Alenes’ legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district’s more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company’s smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities. Living with Lead endeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.
The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin
Author : David Laskin
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061866524
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin Pdf
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.” — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City “Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland. The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
