Alaska Reader Voices from the North

Who speaks for Alaska? Who understands its intimate secrets, its difficult surprises, its wonder and danger beyond the stereotypes and cliches of "The Last Frontier"? How can anyone write or talk with authority about such a vast, mysterious, myth-filled place?

Introduction

ix

I: CHILDREN OF DREAMERS

Seth Kantner

3

(13)

from Ordinary Wolves

Arlitia Jones

16

(1)

1972: Moving to Alaska to Open a Meat Shop

Jean Anderson

17

(5)

Snobs

Linda Schandelmeier

22

(1)

Fire

Natalie Kusz

23

(8)

from Road Song

Marjorie Kowalski Cole

31

(8)

from Correcting the Landscape

Kim Rich

39

(10)

from Johnny's Girl

II: TAKING RISKS, CONFRONTING CONSEQUENCES

Sherry Simpson

49

(12)

from A Man Made Cold by the Universe

Robert Service

61

(1)

The Quitter

John McPhee

62

(9)

from Coming into the Country

James Wickersham

71

(1)

from Old Yukon

Arlitia Jones

72

(1)

Sign on a Cabin in the Caribou Hills

Nick Jans

73

(4)

from Tracks of the Unseen

Jill Fredston

77

(3)

from Rowing to Latitude

James Greiner

80

(8)

from Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story

Jack London

88

(19)

To Build a Fire

III: TRANSFORMATIONS

Nancy Lord

107

(14)

The Man Who Swam with Beavers

Jennie Masruana Jackson

121

(4)

The Man Who Spent the Winter with Bears

Sheila Nickerson

125

(1)

Fairy Tale

Peter Kalifornsky

126

(1)

Qadanalchen's Song

Alan S. Boraas

127

(1)

from Peter KalIfornskys Dream

Ann Fox Chandonnet

128

(1)

Entering the Surroundings

Nora Marks Dauenhauer

129

(1)

Grandpa Jakwteen in Eclipse

Kimberley Cornwall

130

(1)

What Whales and Infants Know

Tom Sexton

131

(4)

Rowing toward the Spirit World

IV: NAMING AND UNNAMING

Robert Marshall

135

(2)

from Alaska Wilderness

June McGlashan Dirks

137

(2)

Grandmama's Visit

Carolyn Kremers

139

(6)

from Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village

Jerah Chadwick

145

(1)

Not to Talk Bad of the Weather

John Haines

146

(6)

from The Stars, the Snow, the Fire

Nora Marks Dauenhauer

152

(1)

Cross Talk

Mary TallMountain

153

(2)

There Is No Word for Goodbye

Joseph Enzweiler

155

(4)

What to Bring for the Next Century

V: FINDING SELF AND SPIRIT

John Haines

159

(4)

Homestead

John Muir

163

(3)

from Travels in Alaska

Peggy Shumaker

166

(1)

Braided River

John Active

167

(6)

Why Subsistence Is a Matter of Cultural Survival: A Yup'ik Point of View

John Morgan

173

(2)

December: for Spirit

Frank Soos

175

(12)

from Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace

VI: FEMININE AND MASCULINE UNBOUND

Jerah Chadwick

187

(2)

Nawalaskam Agagaa: Woman of Ounalashka

Spike Walker

189

(6)

from Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas

Phoebe Newman

195

(3)

Harry

Velma Wallis

198

(7)

from Raising Ourselves

Semyon Pan'kov

205

(1)

Love Song

Sidney Huntington

206

(7)

from Shadows on the Koyukuk

Dana Stabenow

213

(16)

from A Cold Day for Murder

VII: ALASKA AS A PARABLE FOR THE FUTURE

Dan O'Neill

229

(15)

from The Firecracker Boys

Charles Wohlforth

244

(4)

from The Whale and the Supercomputer

Sally Carrighar

248

(3)

from Moonlight at Midday

Richard K. Nelson

251

(6)

from Shadow of the Hunter

Mary TallMountain

257

(2)

The Last Wolf

Margaret E. Murie

259

(2)

from Two in the Far North

Jay Hammond

261

(3)

from Tales of Alaska's Bush Rat Governor: The Extraordinary Autobiography of Jay Hammond, Wilderness Guide and Reluctant Politician

John Haines

264

(2)

A Requiem for the Arctic Refuge

Howard Weaver

266

(5)

Next Chapter

Tom Sexton

271

(2)

For the Sake of the Light

Contributors

273

(6)

Permissions

279

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Alaska Reader Voices from the North

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