"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| Faces of Alaska: From Barrow to Wrangell | by Lester, Jean; published 1992; ISBN-10 0940457601, ISBN-13 978-0940457607. This book combines portraits, oral histories, and photographs of 22 Alaskans. It gives the reader a selection of people from various parts of Alaska who by telling of their lives, help show why Alaska is the unique place that it is. |
| Faces, Voices and Dreams: A Celebration of the Centennial of the Sheldon Jackson Museum Sitka, Alaska 1888-1988 | Peter L. Corey (Editor); |
| Facing the Extreme: One Woman's Story of True Courage, Death-Defying Survival, and Her Quest for the Summit as told to Michael Hodgson | Kocour, Ruth Anne. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), 256 pp., cloth, ISBN0312179421, or paperback, ISBN0312969856, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. An account by the only female member of a ten-person team that began an ascent of Mt. McKinley in May 1992. Nine days later, a massive weather system, the most violent on record, slammed into the mountain, trapping them on an ice shelf at 14,000 feet for 11 days and leaving them to fight for their very survival. |
| Fairbanks | Rennick, Penny, editor, Volume 22, No. 1, Alaska Geographic (Anchorage:Alaska Geographic Society, 1995), 96 p., paper, P.O. Box 93370, Anchorage, AK 99509. wln95-074758 |
| Fairbanks Cabbies | Robinson, Richard W. (Bryn Mawr, PA: Buy Books on the web.com, 2000), 152 pp., paper, ISBN 0741403595, order from Cook Inlet Book Co., 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Biographies of colorful characters who made their living driving taxis. |
| Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds | Cole, Dermot. (cloth)/Fairbanks: The Golden Heart of Alaska (paper) (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1999) 224 pp., cloth, ISBN 0945397798, or paper, ISBN 0945397739, Box 82368, Kenmore WA 98028-0368. Written by a long-time columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, this is part of the publisher's "City History Series." |
| Fairbanks: Alaska's Heart of Gold, a Traveler's Guide | Brown, Tricia. / photographs by Roy Corral (Portland, OR: Alaska Northwest Books, 2000), 94 pp., paper, ISBN 0882405284, Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, P.O. Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306. "Alaska Pocket Guide" to Alaska's second largest city. |
| Fairy Tales and Myths of the Bering Sea Chukchi | ,edited by Alexander B. Dolitsky; translated by Henry N. Michael (Juneau, AK: Alaska-Siberia Research Center, 1996), paper, 125 p. ISBN0965389103 (PO Box 34871, Juneau, AK 99803). wln96343021. Translation of 56 Chukchi folklore and stories first published in 1974 Russian edition, edited by E. Meletinski. |
| Fairy Tales and Myths of the Bering Strait Chukchi | edited by Alexander B. Dolitsky, 2nd edition (Juneau: Alaska-Siberia Research Center, 1997), 136 pp., paperback, ISBN0965389111, P.O. Box 34871, Juneau, AK 99803. Intricate design, careful attention to cultural detail, expansive scope, and intriguing themes in more than 60 tales make it both educational and entertaining. Includes glossary and bibliography. |
| Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush | Shape, William. (Pullman: Washington State University, 1998), 120 pp., paper, ISBN0874221609, P.O. Box 645910, Pullman, WA 99164-5910. Previously unpublished journal and photographs from 1897-98. |
| Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore | Lloyd, Steve K. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2000), 202 pp., cloth, ISBN 0874221935, or paper, ISBN 0874221943, P.O. Box 645910, Pullman, WA 99164-5910. Account of a 1910 winter shipwreck and rescue in Cook Inlet, dramatically illustrated with photographs taken by the ship's mail clerk, John E. Thwaites. |
| Farthest North: the quest for the North Pole | edited by Clive Holland. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1994. 305p. Describes with eyewitness accounts various north polar expeditions from the early 1800's to 1993. Includes bibliographic references. ISBN0786701285. |
| Fashion Means your Fur Hat is Dead: a Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska | Doogan, Mike. illustrated by Dee Boyles. (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, c1996), 157 p., paper, ISBN 0945397542 (Box 60529, Fairbanks, AK 99706, dist. By Graphic Arts Center Publishing, PO Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306). LC96-86224. Anchorage Daily News columnist and humorist presents his version of an Alaska "code of conduct." |
| Father of the Iditarod: The Joe Redington Story | Freedman, Lew. (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1999) 320 pp., paper, ISBN 9945397755, P.O. Box 82368, Kenmore WA 98028. Biography of the man who almost single-handedly rescued long-distance Alaska dog mushing from extinction. |
| Fifty years below zero: a lifetime of adventure in the Far North | Brower, Charles D. / [Fairbanks, AK]: University of Alaska Press, 1994. 324 p. In 1883, Charles Brower came to the Arctic to investigate coal mining possibilities near Cape Lisburne. Except for occasional trips, he remained within the Arctic Circle for the rest of his life. He shares the high adventure, telling what he learned about whaling, pioneering and about the native people with whom he lived. Reprint of 1942 edition with new preface by Terrence Cole. ISBN0912006684 (acid-free paper). LC94-9812. |
| Filipinos in Alaska, 1788-1958 | Buchholdt, Thelma. (Anchorage: Aboriginal Press, 1996), 187 p., paper, ISBN0965541509, (600 Barrow St., Suite 402, Anchorage, AK 99501). LC96-949940. An Asian Alaskan Cultural Center history in Alaska documentation project. This is the first book that traces history and culture of the Filipinos in Alaska from the record of the first merchant seaman in the last quarter of the Eighteenth Century through the community just before Statehood. |
| Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did They All Have to Die? | O'Keefe, Betty and Ian Macdonald. (Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Pub.; Bishop, Calif.: Fine Edge, 1998), 192 pp., paperback, ISBN0938665618, or ISBN 1895811643, Route 2, Box 303, Bishop, CA 93514. Even after 80 years, the worst disaster of the Inside Passage still leaves lingering questions these journalists explore. |
| Finns, Swedes and Norwegians in the Alaska World War I Draft Registrations, 1917-1918 | Vincet, Timothy L. (Salt Lake City: The Author, 2000), 334 pp., P.O. Box 526163, Salt Lake City, UT 84152. A compilation of 4500 entries which includes all information from each draft application. |
| Firecracker boys | O'Neill, Daniel T. / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 388p. Author was named Historian of the Year in 1994 by the Alaska Historical Society for this book that tells the story of Project Chariot, a plan to carve a new harbor out of the Alaska coast near Point Hope by detonating thermonuclear bombs, and how the project and the Atomic Energy Commission were stopped in the early 1960's. The Author also received the Alaska Library Association's 1994 Outstanding Alaskana Award. ISBN0312110863. LC94-2830. |
| First 25 Years: a History of Goldbelt, Incorporated | Metcalfe, Peter. (Juneau: Goldbelt, Inc., 1998), 64 pp., paperback, 9097 Glacier Hwy., Suite 200, Juneau, AK 99801. An illustrated history of the ANSCA corporation for Juneau, Alaska. |
| First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander MacKenzie | Gough, Barry. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 264 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-8061-2944-1 or paper, ISBN 0806130024, 4100 28th Avenue N.W., Norman, OK 73069-8218. LC97-002942. Volume 14 in the "Oklahoma Western Biographies" series. Reveals the international impact of Mackenzie's expeditions and his vital role in the history of the fur trade and the American West. Gough takes the reader along with Mackenzie on his hazardous travels and voyages, using contemporary accounts to bring to life the problems and perils faced by the young explorer in his 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his 1793 journey to the Pacific, which predate the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
| First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim | Edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison (Seattle: One Reel in association with University of Washington Press, 1998), 199 pp., paperback, ISBN0295977396, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. Writers from two continents and four countries of the Pacific Rim write about "the fish of the gods" from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. |
| First Nations of British Columbia: an Anthropological Survey | Muckle, Robert J. (Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 1998), 146 pp., paperback, ISBN077480663X, UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 6344 Memorial Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Canada. Presents a concise and accessible overview of First Nations peoples, cultures, and issues in the province. The author currently teaches anthropology at Capilano College in North Vancouver. |
| First One Hundred Years: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 1894 - 1994 | written and edited by Father Michael Oleksa...[et al.]/ Juneau, AK (POB 20130, Juneau 99802): St Nicholas Church and The Friends of St. Nicholas, 1994. 36 p. A history of the church, founded at the initiative of local Tlingit leaders in 1894, with many historical illustrations. wln95-10921. |
| Fishcamp | Joseph, Dorothy Savage. (Bend, Ore.: Maverick Publications, c1997) 143 pp., ISBN 0892882700. wln97256497. An Athabascan Indian tells about growing up in Holy Cross in rural Alaska. |
| Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore | Lord, Nancy. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997), 261 pp., cloth, ISBN1559635258 (1718 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009). LC96-52052. Author writes of her life from June to August, days filled with net fishing near Cook Inlet and with the nature and cultures that surround their site. |
| Flat and Iditarod 1993-1995 Oral History Interviews | Buzzell, Rolfe G. (Anchorage: Bureau of Land Management and Department of Natural Resources, 1997), 288 pp., comb-bound, order from Office of History and Archaeology, 3601 C Street, Suite 1278, Anchorage, AK 99503-5921. wln98-096752. Summaries of interviews with seven individuals associated with these southwest Alaskan mining communities. |
| Flying cold: the adventures of Russel Merrill, pioneer Alaskan aviator | MacLean, Robert Merrill, and Sean Rossiter. / Fairbanks: Epicenter Press; Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Pub. Col, 1994. 178 p. Biography of one of Alaska's first aviators (1920s); based on personal logs, journals, letters written by Merrill and his widow Thyra and illustrated with over 80 vintage photographs. ISBN094597321(hbd); 09439733X pbk. LC94-27416. |
| Flying, Fighting Weathermen of Patrol Wing Four, 1941-1945: Memoirs of Paul E. Carrigan | memoirs of Paul E. Carrigan, Description: U.S. Navy: Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, Umnak, Cold Bay, Adak, Amchitka, Kiska, Shemya, Attu and The Empire Express to Paramushiro. Published/Created: [Forked River, N.J.]: Regal-Lith Printers, c2002. Description: 3 v.: ill.; 28 cm. |
| Flying, Hiking and Gold Prospecting Adventure in Wild, Present - Day Alaska | Anderson, Douglas. Gold in Trib 1 (Anchorage, AK: Publication Consultants, 1997), 195 pp., ISBN188812511X, PO Box 221974. Anchorage, AK 99522-1974. wln97-12031. Two modern adventurers prospect for gold in the Ladue River region of interior Alaska. |
| Fog on the Mountain | De Laguna, Frederica. (Homer: Kachemak Country Publications, 1995), 275 p., paper, P.O. Box 2386, Homer, AK 99603. Reprint of a murder mystery by the eminent anthropologist, originally published for the Doubleday Crime Club in 1938. LC 9575337. |
| Following the Alaskan Dream: My Salmon Trolling Adventures in the Last Frontier | George, Marilyn Jordan. (Petersburg: The Author, 1999) 365 pp., ISBN 0967163900, P.O. Box 1031, Petersburg AK 99833. R. N. DeArmond says the author "has written a gripping account of those years of fishing for salmon and halibut, of disasters at sea, and of raising a family under circumstances peculiar to Southeastern Alaska." |
| Fond Memories of Anchorage Pioneers: Personal Histories | Written by Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo 15, Auxiliary 4.(Anchorage, Alaska: The Pioneers, 1996), 286p., cloth (Box 101041, Anchorage, AK 99510-1041). LC 95-083083. Sketches of members of the Anchorage organization that keeps alive the memories of Alaska's early settlers. See our Index of Names. |
| Footprints in history: Thorne Bay, Alaska | by Mary Lou Swaim and Leona Coleman, Published/Created: [Thorne, Ketchikan, Alaska]: Swaim, c1979. Description: 199 p.: ill.; 29 cm. Notes: Includes index. |
| For God and Tsar: A Brief History of Russian America, 1741-1867 | Nordlander, David J. (Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association, 1994), 25 p., paper, ISBN 0-930931-15-7, 605 West 4th Avenue, Suite 85, Anchorage, AK 99501. Illustrated booklet by the historian at Sitka National Historical Park. wln96-24087. |
| Forever Alaska | Johnson, Nona J. Hall. (Eagle River: The Author, 1999) 210 pp., paper, ISBN 0965307441, available from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage AK 99501. Alaskan memories of a World War II Woman Marine who lived in Anchorage, Seldovia and Fairbanks. |
| Forgotten Heroes: Police Officers Killed in Alaska, 1850-1997 | Wilbanks, William. (Paducah, Kent.: Turner Publications, 1999) ISBN 1563115115, P.O. Box 3101, Paducah KY 42001. Following a brief history of Alaskan law enforcement, the author discusses the deaths of forty-six peace officers, the earliest being a United States marshal killed in 1897 and the most recent a Fairbanks officer killed in 1998 (regardless of title). |
| Fort Reliance, Yukon: An Archaeological Assessment | Clark, Donald W., Mercury series no. 150 (Hull, PQ: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995), 247 p., paper, ISBN 0660140322, P.O. Box 3100, Station B, Hull, PQ J8X 4H2. Report on excavation of a site just downstream from Dawson. cn95-980029. |
| Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams: Montana Mountain and the Windy Arm Stampede | Lundberg, Murray. (Whitehorse: Pathfinder Publications, 1998), 160 pp., paper, order from Mac's Fireweed Books, 203 Main Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2B2. Story of a 1905 silver strike in the area between Windy Arm and Carcross in southern Yukon. |
| Frank Yasuda and the Chandalar | Wolff, Ernest N. (Fairbanks: The Author, 1997), 66 pp., 875 Crazy Horse Way, Fairbanks, AK 99712. wln97139775. Account of a Japanese whaler who jumped ship in Barrow, married an Inupiat woman, and crossed the Brooks Range to found the village of Beaver on the Yukon River; illustrated with photographs. |
| From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839 | by Peter Warren Dease and William Barr, (Rupert's Land Record Society Series, 7) |
| From Fish Camps to Cold Storages; a Brief History of the Petersburg Area to 1927 | Ellis, Pat. ([Petersburg, AK: Clausen Memorial Museum, 1998), 102p., Order from: P.O. Box 708, Petersburg, AK 99833. Covers Petersburg's first thirty years. |
| From Sitka's Past | DeArmond, Robert N. (Sitka: Sitka Historical Society, 1995), 259 p., paper, ISBN0964485214 (330 Harbor Drive, Sitka, AK 99835). wln95-071507. A selection of 49 newspaper columns on historical topics, by a noted journalist and historian. |
| From the Land of the Totem Poles | Aldona Jonaitis, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1988 |
| From War to Wilderness | Shelford, Cyril. (Victoria, B.C.: Shelford Pub., 1997), 250 pp., hardbound, ISBN1550565338, 4210 Kincaid Street, Victoria, BC V8X4K6. cn97-9107121. Letters of the author's father relate his early life in which he fought in the Boer War and then came to America, arriving in Alaska in 1904 where he stayed for six years-trapping and building--before settling in British Columbia. |
| Front Street, Kotzebue | Photography by Dennis Witmer, ISBN-10 0977102823, IBSN-13 9780977102822, Just north of the Arctic Circle sits Kotzebue, a town of the Inupiat people that has endured for over a century. In this compelling visual essay, Dennis Witmer captures scenes on its Front Street, the main thoroughfare whose buildings have evolved from the sod huts of Native cultures to permanent wood and concrete edifices. From front yards with parked snow machines to townspeople peacefully strolling down sidewalks, the striking black-and-white images in Front Street, Kotzebue offer a thought-provoking view of life in the Arctic and people’s methods of coexisting with the brutality of nature. |
| Frontier Justice | Ferrell, Ed. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1998), 146 pp., paper, ISBN078840881X, 1540-E Pointer Place Ridge, Suite 301, Bowie, MD 20716, 1-800-398-7709. Adventures in law and order from Alaskan history. |
| Frontier Physician: the Life and Legacy of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht | Jordan, Nancy. (Fairbanks: Press, 1996), 222 p., paper, ISBN 0-945397-50-X, (Box 60529, Fairbanks, AK 99706, dist. By Graphic Arts Center Publishing, PO Box 10306, Portland, OR 97296-0306). LC96-000627. Life story of a medical doctor who arrived in Alaska in the 1930s to serve the Matanuska Colony and went on to become a leader in the field of circumpolar health. |
| Frontiers of Justice, Volume I: The Death Penalty | Whitman, Claudia. (Brunswick: Biddle Publishing, 1998), 270 pp., paper, ISBN1879418266, P.O. Box 1305, #103, Brunswick, ME 04011. An anthology about capital punishment which includes an essay by John Gaffney who witnessed a 1939 hanging in Juneau. |
| Frozen in Silver: The Life and Frontier Photography of P. E. Larson | Bailey, Ronald T. (Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1998), 287 pp., cloth, ISBN0804009996, or paper, ISBN0804010005,Scott Quadrangle, Athens, OH 45701. Swedish immigrant, P. E. Larss (later Larson), became a frontier photographer, working his way West through Minnesota, California, and British Columbia before joining the Klondike Gold Rush and making his fortune. He later set up his studio in Nevada and eventually settled in Oregon. |
| Frozen Shield: Alaska Cover-up | Mangieri, Nick. (Williamsburg, Va.: Veracity Press, 2000), 395 pp., paper, ISBN 0966536428, P.O. Box 369, Lightfoot, VA 93090. Former police chief tells his side of the story of governmental corruption in Palmer. |
| Fur Traders from New England: the Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800, The Narratives of William Dane Phelps, William Sturgis & James Gilchrist Swan | Busch, Briton C., and Barry M. Gough, editors.(Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1997), 137 pp., cloth, ISBN 0870622617, P.O. Box 14707, Spokane, WA 99214. Annotated documents and excerpts from the early fur trade. |
