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Of Landscape and Longing: Finding a Home at Water's Edge	Servid, Carolyn. (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000), 192 pp., paper, ISBN 1571312382, 1001 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55415. Essays describe author's personal outlook and perspectives formed while living in Sitka.
Of Moose and Men: A Skewed Look at Life in Alaska	Poynor, A. E. (Nikiski,, Alaska: OMM Books, 1999) 208 pp., paper, ISBN 0966791509, P. O. Box 7397, Nikiski AK 99635. A collection of humorous columns originally appearing in the Peninsula Clarion.
Oh, To Be Twenty Again-And Twins!	Swalling, Al. (Anchorage: A & M Publishing, 1999) 262 pp., cloth, ISBN 0967123003, P.O. Box 1039, Anchorage AK 99510. Autobiography of an Alaskan builder who came to the territory in the 1920s to work in Cordova, and has been involved in construction every since.
Old Gold: Historical Vignettes of Juneau, Alaska	DeArmond, Robert N., edited by June Hall and Renee Guerin, 2nd revised edition (Juneau: Gastineau Channel Historical Society and KINY, 1997), 68 pp., . A new edition of the 1985 collection written to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of radio station KINY.
On To Alaska, Pioneer Period in Anchorage Church History	by M. R. Korody, published in 1988 by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 96 pages, ISBN: 083411240X / ISBN-13: 9780834112407. See our Index of Names.
Once Upon the Kenai, Stories from the People	Kenai Historical Society
One Alaskan's Potpourri: Volume 1, the Homestead Years	Moss, H. P. (Eagle River, Alaska: Eagle River Type and Graphics, 1997), 228 pp., paperback, ISBN 0965307417, 17050 N. Eagle River Loop Rd., #3, Eagle River, AK 99577-7804. The former State Senator remembers his years as a homesteading grandfather in the 1970s.
One Dog Short: The Odyssey and Collection of a Family in Alaska During the Gold Rush Years	Krug, John W. and Caryl Sale Krug, (Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, 1998), 204 pp., paper, distributed by Friends of the Alaska State Museum, 395 Whittier Street, Juneau, AK 99801-1718. Illustrated history of a family living in Dawson, Nome and Fairbanks; includes color photographs of their extensive ivory artifact collection which was recently donated to the Alaska State Museum.
One Last Cast: from Alaska Outdoors Radio Magazine	Swensen, Evan. (Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 2000), 272 pp., paper, ISBN 1888125802, P.O. Box 221974, Anchorage, AK 99522-1974. Collection of stories first heard on author's radio program.
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, 26th anniversary edition	Proenneke, Richard. (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1999) 223 pp., paper, ISBN 0882405136, available from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, P.O. Box 10306, Portland OR 97296-0306. Brought back into print after over twenty years, Sam Keith compiled this tribute from Proenneke's journals.
One Particular Harbor	James, Janet Lee. / Chicago: Noble Press, 1993. The adventures of one woman with multiple sclerosis living in the Alaskan wilderness. ISBN1879360306. LC93-33479.
One Thing After Another: Adventures in Alaska	Jensen, Marcus F., as told to John Jensen. (London: Minerva Press, 1999) 337 pp., paper, ISBN 0754103439, available from Hearthside Books, 8745 Glacier Highway, Juneau AK 99801, 1-800-478-1000. Autobiography of a master big game guide and territorial legislator who arrived in Alaska in 1929.
One Woman's Gold Rush: Snapshots from Mollie Brackett's Lost Photo Album, 1898-1899	Driscoll, Cynthia Brackett. (Kalamazoo: Oak Woods Media, 1996), 128 p., paper, ISBN 088196007 (PO Box 19127, Kalamazoo, MI 49019). LC96-12942. Skagway and Atlin history with photos taken by the daughter-in-law of Skagway's wagon-road builder.
Organizing Asian American labor: the Pacific coast canned-salmon industry, 1870-1942	Friday, Chris. / Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 276 p. Study of West Coast, concentrating on British Columbia, cannery labor market between 1870 and 1942 in relation to the social and political behavior and ties of Chinese, Japanese and Filipino workers. ISBN1566391393. LC93-29471.
Orthodox Alaska: A Theology of Mission	by Michael Oleksa, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY 10707. A history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. 6-page pdf of index available to view now
Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands	by Henry W. Elliott, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. ebook available to read at Internet Archive
Our Northern Domain: Alaska, picturesque, historic and commercial	by Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935, Publication date [c1910], Pages 252 Available to read online at Internet Archive
Our Side of the River: A Biography of Growing Up and Living in Alaska on Our Side of the Kuskokwim River in the Village of Old Akiak	Laraux, Sis. (Palmer: Publications Consultants, 1994), 160 p., ISBN 0964480905, paper, P.O. Box 443, Palmer, AK 99645. Memories and photographs. LC 94-062116.
Out Among the Wolves; contemporary writings on the wolf	edited by John A. Murray. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993. 247 p. This anthology "gathers some of the best writings on the wolf over the past half-century from well-know scientists, naturalists, and authors, including Adolph Murie, John Haines, Roger A. Caras, and Richard Nelson." ISBN0882404393. LC93-10971.
Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Tenth Anniversary Edition	Keeble, John. (Cheney, Wash.: Eastern Washington University Press, 1999) 363 pp., cloth, ISBN 0910055548, or paper, ISBN 091005553X, EWU Press, MS 1, 705 First Street, Spokane WA 99201. In this now definitive book on the oil spill, all the primary concerns of the first edition are updated with new material.
Outside Passage: Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood	Scully, Julia. (New York: Random House, 1998), 240 pp., cloth, ISBN0375500839, order from 400 Hahn Road, Westminster, MD 21157. A New York magazine editor remembers life with her sister and widowed mother in Nome and Fairbanks before and during World War II.

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