The Men Of The Last Frontier

Author : Grey Owl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554888054

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The Men of the Last Frontier by Grey Owl Pdf

In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in the 21st century. By the 1920s, Canadas outposts of adventure had been thrust farther and farther north to the remote margins of the country. Lumbermen, miners, and trappers invaded the primeval forests, seizing on natures wealth with soulless efficiency. Grey Owl himself fled before the assault as he witnessed his valleys polluted with sawmills, his hills dug up for hidden treasure, and wildlife, particularly his beloved beavers, exterminated for quick fortunes.

Author : Grey Owl
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446547250

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The Men of the Last Frontier by Grey Owl Pdf

“The Men of the Last Frontier” is a 1922 work by Grey Owl. Part memoir, part chronicle of the vanishing Canadian wilderness, and part collection First Nations lore and stories. His first book, “The Men of the Last Frontier” is an impassioned cry for the conservation of the natural world that is as poignent now as when first published. Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888–1938), also known as Grey Owl, was a British-born Canadian fur trapper, conservationist, and writer. In life, he pretended to be a First Nations person, but it was later discovered that he was in fact not Indigenous—revelations that greatly tarnished his reputation. Other notable works by this author include: “The Men of the Last Frontier”, “Pilgrims of the Wild”, and “Tales of an Empty Cabin”. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

Author : Archibald Stansfeld Belaney
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4066338038906

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The Men of the Last Frontier by Archibald Stansfeld Belaney Pdf

"The Men of the Last Frontier" by Archibald Stansfeld Belaney. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : E. Alexander Powell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547630579

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The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander Powell Pdf

"The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa" by E. Alexander Powell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Grey Owl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:1032857488

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The Men of the Last Frontier [text (large Print)] by Grey Owl Pdf

First book published by Grey Owl, famous blood-brother of the Ojibway, naturalist, and storyteller.

Author : Melissa L. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1956413057

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The Call of the Last Frontier by Melissa L. Cook Pdf

Melissa Cook shares her Alaska adventures, joys, struggles, and daily life in the Last Frontier with heart-pounding excitement and humor.

Author : Ian C. Hartman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0996583785

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Black History in the Last Frontier by Ian C. Hartman Pdf

Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416591214

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The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell Pdf

The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+—James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer’s classic [Into the Wild], and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams” (Men’s Journal). Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization—a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo’s cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family’s amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo’s heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44 degrees below zero—all the while cultivating the hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate. Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007289455

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The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean Pdf

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

Author : V. V. Masterson
Publisher : University of Missouri
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : History
ISBN : 0826206689

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The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier by V. V. Masterson Pdf

History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819568457

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Anthony Mann by Jeanine Basinger Pdf

Classic study of a filmmaker's career, now including every Mann film. Back in print—new and expanded edition. Director of such often-revived films as Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, and El Cid, Anthony Mann enjoyed a lasting and important career as one of Hollywood's premier filmmakers. Mann's Westerns, noir pictures, and epics are admired and studied by fans and scholars alike, and he was an expert in the fundamental elements of cinema (movement and placement of the camera, composition in the frame, and careful editing). Jeanine Basinger's Anthony Mann, which places the director's visual style at the center of its analysis, was among the first formal studies of any filmmaker, and it set a standard in the field over twenty-five years ago. Long out of print and much in demand, this pioneering book is now available again, featuring complete coverage of those Mann films not discussed in the original work, as well as over fifty rare film stills. Wesleyan is proud to issue this expanded edition of an essential text, making it available to new generations of filmgoers and readers.

Author : C. B. Bernard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762794287

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Chasing Alaska by C. B. Bernard Pdf

Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, he threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine environment, forming a landscape view of the place that had lured him and “Uncle Joe,” both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.

Author : Howard Blum
Publisher : Crown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307461735

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The Floor of Heaven by Howard Blum Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen--are now victims of their own success. But then gold is discovered in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian Klondike and a new frontier suddenly looms: an immense unexplored territory filled with frozen waterways, dark spruce forests, and towering mountains capped by glistening layers of snow and ice. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine who’s adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, and makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush; and Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, a sly and inventive conman who rules a vast criminal empire. As we follow this trio’s lives, we’re led inexorably into a perplexing mystery: a fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Charlie Siringo discovers that to run the thieves to ground, he must embark on a rugged cross-territory odyssey that will lead him across frigid waters and through a frozen wilderness to face down "Soapy" Smith and his gang of 300 cutthroats. Hanging in the balance: George Carmack’s fortune in gold. At once a compelling true-life mystery and an unforgettable portrait of a time in America’s history, The Floor of Heaven is also an exhilarating tribute to the courage and undaunted spirit of the men and women who helped shape America.

Author : Alaska Magazine,Jill Shepherd
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 1592285686

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The Last Frontier by Alaska Magazine,Jill Shepherd Pdf

The best writing from 65 years of Alaska Magazine.

Author : Julia Assante
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608681600

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The Last Frontier by Julia Assante Pdf

"An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.