Travelers' Tales Alaska (40 page)

Glacier Bay
70

Glacier Bay National Park
67

Glacier flying
15

Glacier River Valley
183

gold rush
94

Haines
37

Halibut Cove
91

Harding Icefield
88

Hidden Hill
142

hiking
96
,
182

hunting
119

Holgate Glacier
85

Homer
90

Igichuk Hills
40

Kachemak Bay
91

Kachemak Bay State Park
92

Kahiltna Glacier
16

kayaking
68
,
84

Kenai Peninsula
84
,
90
,
154

Kenai River
88

Kinnickinnick Lake
92

Kiska
231

Kotzebue
41

McNeil River State Game Sanctuary
9

Mt. McKinley
14

Mt. Noak
40

Muir Glacier
70

Muir, John
35

Nome
74

Point Retreat
113

Pratt Museum
90

Prince William Sound
27

rafting
165
,
275

Resurrection Bay
84

rock climbing
271

RV camping
77

Sheep Camp
98

snowshoeing
99

Stampede Trail
246

Talkeetna
13

Teklanika River
247

Tlingit culture
34

Tok River
124

Upper Paradise Lake
154

whale-hunting
130

whale-watching
110

White Thunder Ridge
70

Whittier
217

Wiseman
181

Beeman, Susan
56–63

Bielawski, Ellen
76–82
,
124

Brown, Barbara
27–30

Cahill, Tim
67–73

Caputo, Philip
165–184

Cerwonka, Robin
169

Deschu, Nancy
105–108

Dorsey, James
193

Dunkel, Tom
83–93

Fair, Jeff
3–6

Fortier, Edward J.
255

Frazier, Ian
74–75

Freedman, Lew
143

Goldstein, Niles Elliot
141–151

Greci, Dana
61

Grudowski, Mike
217–226

Haines, John vii

Hayes, Ernestine
109–115

Henry, Daniel
31–48

Houston, Pam
119–129

Howe, Steve
94–104

Jettmar, Karen
203

Kahn, Steve
40
,
122

Klein, Chris
111

Krakauer, Jon
13–26

Leavitt, Dustin W.
239

Lord, Nancy
269–277

Marshall, Robert
171

Moore, Kathleen Dean
49–55

Nickles, Jon R.
221

O'Hara, Pat
149

Pestrikof, Florence
35

Readicker-Henderson, Ed
7–12

Roberts, David
xiii–xvii
,
198–205

Rock, Rex Allen
135

Romano-Lax, Andromeda
51
,
152–164

Sherwonit, Bill
209–216

Simpson, Sherry
243–265

Stabenow, Dana
95

Steere, Mike
185–197

Steffian, Amy
35

Sullivan, Toby
227–242

Troll, Tim
213

Villars, Heather
130–140

Woodbury, John
246

Berger, Thomas R.
Village Journey.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.

Cahill, Tim.
Road Fever: A High Speed Travelogue
. New York: Vintage Departures, 1994.

Davidson, Art.
Minus 148°: First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley.
Seattle: Cloudcap Press, 1986.

Ford, Corey.
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
:
The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska.
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1992.

Freedman, Lew.
Iditarod Classics: Tales of the Trail from Men and Women Who Race Across Alaska
. Kenmore, Wash.: Epicenter Press, 1992.

Gabriel, Moses P.
Gwich'in History.
Fairbanks: Yukon/Alaska Publishing Company, 1993.

Garfield, Brian.
The Thousand-Mile War.
New York: Doubleday, 1969.

Goldstein, Niles Elliot.
God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places
. New York: Bell Tower, 2000.

Halliday, Jan.
Native Peoples of Alaska: A Traveler's Guide to Land, Art and Culture.
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1998.

Hedlin, Robert and Gary Holthouse (eds.).
Alaska: Reflections on Land and Spirit.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Houston, Pam.
A Little More About Me
. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Huntington, Sidney.
Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993.

Jans, Nick.
A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996.

Kizzia, Tom.
The Wake of the Unseen Object: Among the Native Cultures of Bush Alaska
. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992.

Krakauer, Jon.
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains.
Guilford, Conn.: Lyons & Burford, 1990.

Krakauer, Jon.
Into the Wild
. New York: Villard Books, 1996.

Kremers, Carolyn.
Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996.

Kusz, Natalie.
Road Song: A Memoir.
New York: Harper-Perennial, 1991.

Langdon, Steve J.
The Native People of Alaska.
Anchorage: Greatland Graphics, 1993.

Lentfer, Hank and Carolyn Servid (eds.).
Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2001.

Leo, Richard.
Way Out Here: Modern Life in Ice-Age Alaska
. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1996.

Lopez, Barry.
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.

Lord, Nancy.
Fish Camp: Life on an Alaskan Shore
. Washington, D.C.: Shearwater Books, 1997.

Lord, Nancy.
Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast
. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 2000.

Marshall, Robert.
Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks Range
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

McGinnis, Joe.
Going to Extremes
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

McPhee, John.
Coming into the Country
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Mergler, Wayne (ed.).
The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996.

Miller, Debbie.
Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Moore, Kathleen Dean.
Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World
. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 1999.

Morgan, Lael (ed.).
Alaska's Native People.
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Quarterly 6(3), 1979.

Nelson, Richard.
The Island Within
. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Paulsen, Gary.
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
. New York: Harvest Books, 1995.

Rich, Kim.
Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in Alaska's Underworld
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1999.

Roberts, David.
The Early Climbs: Deborah and the Mountain of My Fear
. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 1991.

Roberts, David.
Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings
. Cambridge, Mass.: The Mountaineers, 1986.

Romano-Lax, Andromeda.
Alaska's Kenai Peninsula: A Traveler's Guide
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 2001.

Romano-Lax, Andromeda.
How to Rent a Public Cabin in Southcentral Alaska.
Berkeley: Wilderness Press, 1999.

Schooler, Lynn.
The Blue Bear.
Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.

Servid, Carolyn.
Of Landscape and Longing: Finding a Home at the Water's Edge.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.

Servid, Carolyn (ed.).
From the Island's Edge: A Sitka Reader.
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1995.

Sherwonit, Bill.
To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 2000.

Sherwonit, Bill.
Alaska's Accessible Wilderness: A Traveler's Guide to Alaska's State Parks
. Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996.

Sherwonit, Bill (ed.).
Denali: A Literary Anthology
. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 2000.

Sherwonit, Bill and Jeff Schultz.
Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome
. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2002.

Simpson, Sherry.
The Way Winter Comes
. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1998.

Spencer, Page.
White Silk and Black Tar.
Minneapolis, Bergamot Books, 1990.

Walker, Tom and Larry Aumiller.
River of Bears
. Stillwater, Minn.: Voyageur Press, 1993.

Waterman, Jon.
In the Shadow of Denali
. New York: Dell, 1994.

Zwinger, Susan.
Stalking the Ice Dragon: An Alaskan Journey
. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.

Special thanks to all of the writers, who submitted so many remarkable stories, including ones that did not make it into this anthology. Thank you to David Roberts for his delightful and perceptive introduction, and to the editors and publishers at Travelers' Tales for their fine work and dedication to this book.

Additionally, the Alaska editors express appreciation to their families for ongoing support of their writing lives. Bill Sherwonit especially thanks his wife, Dulcy Boehle, and, mom, Torie Sherwonit; Ellen Bielawski thanks Kay Bielawski; and Andromeda Romano-Lax thanks Brian Lax.

“Sixty-Five” by Jeff Fair reprinted from the December 2000 issue of
Appalachia
. Copyright © 2000 by Jeff Fair. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Surrounded by Bears” by Ed Readicker-Henderson published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2003 by Ed Readicker-Henderson.

“The Flyboys of Talkeetna” by Jon Krakauer excerpted from
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer. Copyright © 1990 by Jon Krakauer. Reprinted by permission of The Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot.

“Kayaking Through a Timeless Realm of Rain, Bugs, and B.O.” by Barbara Brown published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2003 by Barbara Brown.

“Eating Edward Curtis at the Ugruk Café” by Daniel Henry published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2003 by Daniel Henry.

“The Only Place Like This” by Kathleen Dean Moore excerpted from
Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World
by Kathleen Dean Moore.
Copyright © 1999 by Kathleen Dean Moore. Reprinted by permission of The Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot.

“From Scratch” by Susan Beeman published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2003 by Susan Beeman.

“The Great White Philharmonic” by Tim Cahill reprinted from the June 1996 issue of
Outside
. Copyright © 1996 by Tim Cahill. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Woe Is Me” by Ian Frazier originally appeared in the March 2001 issue of
The Atlantic Monthly
. Copyright © 2001 by Ian Frazier. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Camping at Wal
Mart” by Ellen Bielawski published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2003 by Ellen Bielawski.