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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157764203321

Autore

Lattery Dennis

Titolo

Hunts and Home Fires : Surviving 50 Years of Alaska and Other Interesting Things

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Publication Consultants, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-59433-075-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Soggetti

Bowhunting

Hunting

Hunting stories, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About Hunts and Home Fires -- Growing up in Alaska -- Rose Cochran's Nasturtiums -- Life As An Alaska Entrepreneur -- My First Rifle -- An Apology to Miss Rodland -- Recreational Gold Hunting -- The Dunking of E. Waneta Coring -- Alaska Statehood, A Big Night! -- Working for Nick -- The Local Jacket -- Hunting Mine Mountain -- Don't Eat the Putshki! -- UofA Engineers Day -- Trouble Bruin -- My First Client -- Land Otter Man -- Twins for the Pot -- The Kids at Skwentna -- Sheep Fever -- A Day Worth Spending -- The Weather Spirit of Birch Creek -- Little Tok Grizzly -- Dyea Beach -- The Other House -- The Goats of Victor Creek -- Who Speaks for the Salmon? -- Mom's Broke Leg -- The Three-Legged Deer -- On Keeping a Diary -- Alaska Range Moose -- Murder Lake, Fact or Fiction? -- Alaska Bowhunting Details -- The Woodstove -- Needed, Support from America -- Three Culprits in Bear Country -- How Fairbanks Came to Be -- A Hunting Partner -- West Kodiak Passage -- Lamentations of a Camp Cook -- "Oh My God, I'm Dead!" -- The Fly Fishing Malady -- Powerful Confused, but Never Lost -- Have We Been Here Before? -- Bear-Baiting Myths -- Sourdough Don't Fly -- Remembering Fred Bear -- A Memorial for The Futz -- A Good Mulligan -- The Rock and the Hard Place -- Picking the Ideal Client -- South Fork Reflections -- When Optics Are Your Best Friend



-- On Following Your Nose -- In the Midst of Bears -- Calling All Moose -- "Packing" in Alaska -- Mystery of the Kenai -- Living in Earthquake Country -- Fire on the Tsiu -- Octopus-Care and Cleaning -- Test Your Dead Reckoning -- Dipping Copper River Salmon -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Hunts and Home Fires an account of fifty years of life spent on the last frontier. It is a reflection on the spirit of small town Alaska and of a people used to bringing home wild foods for the table. It is about youth and coming of age, about individual industry, hard work, family, and life in general. Hunting and fishing stories are the backbone, mixed with how-to information, humor, and a bit of history. There are essays regarding an interesting mix of subjects through a fifty year journey.