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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461725903321

Autore

Ringsmuth Katherine Johnson

Titolo

Alaska's Skyboys : Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier / / Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

0-295-80622-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

629.13092/2798

Soggetti

Bush pilots - Alaska

Aeronautics - Alaska - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ALASKA'S SKYBOYS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Buck Taylor and Not Buck Rogers?; ONE Cowboys, Sourdoughs, and Alaska Bush Pilots; TWO Mines, Mail, and Mercy Flights; THREE Mudflat Takeoffs and Glacier Landings; FOUR The Copper Belt Line; FIVE Taming the "Wild North"; SIX World War II, Reeve's Field, and the Northern Air Route; SEVEN The Last Casualties of Fog and War; EIGHT From Air Carrier to Cordova Airlines; NINE Soaring Spies, Surveyors, and Scientists; TEN The Flying Huntsman; ELEVEN Creating an Airplane Culture

TWELVE Seekers of the InaccessibleConclusion: Where Have All the Skyboys Gone?; Notes; Bibliography; Index