1.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716816103321

Autore

Berger David L (David Lemuel), <1958->

Titolo

Hydrogeologic framework of Antelope Valley and Bedell Flat, Washoe County, west-central Nevada / / by David L. Berger, David A. Ponce, and Wyn C. Ross ; prepared in cooperation with the Washoe County Department of Water Resources

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carson City, Nevada : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 11 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 01-4220

Soggetti

Hydrogeology - Nevada - Washoe County

Groundwater flow - Nevada - Washoe County

Groundwater flow

Hydrogeology

Nevada Washoe County

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11).