"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| Walk Softly With Me: Adventures of a Woman Big-Game Guide in Alaska | McLeod-Everette, Sharon. (Fairbanks: Vanessapress, 1998), 174 pp., paperback, ISBN0940055503, P.O. Box 82761, Fairbanks, AK 99708. The author relates her life-long experiences with the outdoors and big-game hunting in Alaska. |
| Walking my Dog, Jane: From Valdez to Prudhoe Bay along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline | Rozell, Ned. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2000), 342 pp., cloth, ISBN 082073141, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282. With his chocolate lab, Jane, the author walks the length of the pipeline, describing the wildlife, scenery and people along the way. |
| War Comes to Alaska: the Dutch Harbor Attack, June 3-4, 1942 | Rourke, Norman E. (Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1997), 166 pp., paper, ISBN1572490284, available from White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., PO Box 152, Shippensburg, PA 17257. LC96-053353. Story of the battle on North American soil, from the American and Japanese points of view. |
| War, Wings, and a Western Youth, 1925-1945 | Hinckley, Ted C. (Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 1996), 165 p., cloth, ISBN1571970096 (5124 Bur Oak Circle, Raleigh, NC 27619). LC95-071348. Autobiography by an historian and university professor whose focus was late nineteenth and early twentieth century Alaskan history. |
| Warplanes to Alaska | Smith, Blake W. (Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 1998), 256 pp., cloth, order from Cook Inlet Book Company, 415 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Unofficial WWII history of a wilderness airway from Montana to Nome that linked remote communities and brought fortune seekers and entrepreneurs to the Yukon and Alaska, illustrated with historical photographs. |
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Wasilla: A Great Place Among the Lakes The Centennial History 1917-2017 |
Coghlan, Skip. published 2016, 224 pp., ISBN 978-1-57833-658-6. Part 1: Narrative History, Part 2 Pictorial History, Part 3 Family Histories, biographies included for Adcock, Anderson, Behnke, Bergman, Betts, Bjorn, Blissard, Blodgett, Bogard, Borden, Browne, Byers, Cadwallader, Cannon, Carney, Carson, Carter, Cavanaugh, Church, Clark, Clarke, Coghlan, Combs, Cornelius, Cottle, Crocker, Dinkel, Doherty, Edlund, Erickson, Fabyan, Fleckenstein, Fritzler, Frydenlund, Garcia, Gershmel, Gislason, Grau, Gray, Gronwoldt, Gustafson, Hanson, Harbeson, Harman, Harrison, Hartman, Harvey, Hatcher, Heaven, Herning, Hubbard, Hjellen, Holstein, Hulke, Hurd, Isaacs, Jacobsen, Jensen, Johnson, Katkus, Kennedy, Klockenteger, Lander, Larsen, LaValley, Lemon, LePors, Liebing, Lincoln, Line, Lothrop, Marion, McCallister, McHenry, McNeil, Metz, Miller, Minnick, Mommsen, Morrison, Neal, Nelson, Newcomb, Nunley, Oberg, Ohnstad, Olsen, Olson, Osborne, Palmer, Palmquist, Paulson, Pearson, Peck, Polis, Rae, Redington, Robinette, Roth, Sager, Senske, Shough, Shrock, Slumberger, Smith, Snider, Soper, Spaulding, Stern, Stump, Swanson, Teeland, Theodore, Thomas, Thorpe, Tryck, Vail, Vickaryous, Wagner, Wasilla, Wilmoth, Wilson, Zink |
| Way it Was in our Changing Alaska; an Alaskan Master Guide's Years of Hunting on the Pack Ice for the Great White Bear-and Hunts for Grizzly and Brown Bears and all Alaska Big Game | Conkle, LeNora. Hunting: (Anchorage, AK:Publications Consultants, 1997), 216 pp., cloth, ISBN188812508X, PO Box 221974, Anchorage, AK 99522-1974. LC96-070834. Big Game hunting in the 1950s,'60s, and '70s in Alaska. |
| Way out Here: Modern Life in Ice-Age Alaska | Leo, Richard. (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1996), 191 p., paper, ISBN1570610614 (615 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98104). LC96-004292. Essays reflect author's life and his relation to neighbors and the land on a remote homestead in the Susitna Valley. |
| Way Winter Comes: Alaska Stories | Simpson, Sherry. (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1998), 164 pp., cloth, ISBN1570611467, 615 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104. The Chinook Literary Award winner's essays relate true stories of her life in the great northern place with compelling clarity. |
| We Gratefully Come, Remembering, Rejoicing | Lowder, Norma. (Houston: The Author, 1998), 54 pp., comb-bound, 7480 Beachnut, #127, Houston, TX 77074. Illustrated history of the Jesse Lee Home at Unalaska, written on the occasion of placing a commemorative marker at the site of the orphanage and school. |
| We Shall Be Remembered | by Atwood, Evangeline, (Anchorage: The Alaska Methodist University, 1966) |
| West Coast Christmas: Celebrating the Season on the Edge of the Pacific | Tempelman-Kluit, Anne. (Vancouver, B.C.: Whitecap Books, 1999) 143 pp., cloth, ISBN 1551109565, available from Hearthside Books, 8745 Glacier Hwy, Juneau AK 99801, 1-800-478-1000. Journal entries, articles, recipes, and archival photographs provide a nostalgic look at holiday celebrations in the second half of the 19th century in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska. |
| Whales, Ice and Men | Bockstoce, John. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 400 p., paper, ISBN 0295974478, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. "Reprint with corrections" of this classic illustrated account of Yankee whaling in the western Arctic. wln96-037177 |
| What … No Landing Field?: Adventures of an Alaska Seaplane Pilot | Ellis, Robert E. (Bob) and Margaret R. (Peg) Ellis., edited by Elizabeth Richardson (Ward Cove: E.S. Richardson, 1998), 167 pp., paperback, ISBN0966039610, E.S. Richardson, P.O. Box 662, Ward Cove, AK 99928. This reissue of the original 1969 edition tells the story of a pioneer Alaska aviator and founder of Ellis Air Lines and life in the Alaska Territory. |
| When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon | Morrow, Phyllis, and William Schneider, editor. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995), 244 p., ISBN 0874211956, Logan, UT 84322-7800. Oral traditions and folklore analysed and edited by oral historians and anthropologists fromUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks. LC 95-032445. |
| When the Geese Come: the Journals of a Moravian Missionary Ella Mae Ervin Romig 1898-1905, Southwest Alaska | Romig, Ella Mae Ervin. / edited with an introduction by Phyllis Demuth Movius (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1997), 254 pp., paper, ISBN0912006897, PO Box 756240, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99702. LC96-51588. "Her candid observations of a time long gone reveal a growing affection and understanding for the wild country where they lived and labored, and for the Yup'ik people with whom they worked." |
| When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II | Kohlhoff, Dean. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 248 p., ISBN 0295974036, cloth, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096. Relates the tragic story of the Aleuts who were relocated to camps in Southeast Alaska, a completely different environment, and left to cope with these changes, and of their return to their villages to find the devastation there. LC 95-017676. |
| Where can I buy one of these?: a History of Ketchikan, Alaska’s Business Community | by Patricia Roppel, Published/Created: Wrangell, Alas. : Farwest Research, c1999. Description: 60 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Notes: Includes index. |
| Where the Echo Began and Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska | Himmelheber, Hans. , translated by Kurt and Ester Vitt, edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2000), 224 pp., cloth, ISBN 188963038, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756420, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6240. Based on fieldwork done in 1936-37 and originally published in German, this new compilation of ethnographic information includes legends, details of traditional activities, and marvelous candid photographs. |
| Where to Prospect for Gold in Alaska without Getting Shot! | Wendt, Ron. (Wasilla, AK: Goldstream Publications, 1996), 64 p., paper, ISBN188657412X (PO Box 870624, Wasilla, AK 99687). wln97-075653. "Comprehensive guide on where recreational gold prospectors can look for gold around Alaska with no hassle." |
| White Foam Flew: Perils in the Gulf of Alaska, 1947 to 1962 | Scott, Anne Theberge. (Tacoma: Quiveir Press, 1998), 144 pp., paper, ISBN0966124707, 702 Court A, Tacoma, WA 98402. A 97-year-old woman remembers her years of crewing on her son's fishing boat. |
| White Pass and Yukon Route Railway | Wilson, Graham. (Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 1998), 112 pp., paper, ISBN0968195520, P. O. Box 10306, Portland, OR 97210. An album of 125 historic black and white photographs. |
| Who Lived in this House?: A Study of Koyukuk Semisubterranean Houses | Clark, A. McFadyen. , Mercury Series, (Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1996), 282p., paper, ISBN0660159589, (distributed by University of Washington Press, PO Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096). Study of a house style shared by Inupiat Eskimos and Koyukon Athabaskan Indians in the northwestern interior of Alaska. |
| Wild Alaska: The Complete Guide to Parks, Preserves, Wildlife Refuges, and Other Public Lands | Simmerman, Nancy Lange., 2nd edition (Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1999) 348 pp., paper, ISBN 0898865832, 1001 S.W. Klickitat Way, Suite 201, Seattle WA 98134. An updated edition of the nearly 20-year-old Alaska's Parklands. The editor, Tricia Brown, includes a reorganization of state and federal parklands into regional sections, updates on acreage and access, changes in status, and adds more information on activities, flora, and fauna. |
| Wild Times in Wild Places Adventures on Alaska's Frontier | Freedman, Lewis. (Anchorage, AK: Glacier Press, 1996), paper, 192 p., (Available from Borders Books, 1100 East Dimond Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99515-2010). wln96-283355. Contemporary adventures of mountain climbing, mushing and braving the great outdoors of Alaska. |
| Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands |
A hunter's experiences while searching
for wapiti, bears and caribou on the larger coast islands of
British Columbia and Alaska, by Charles Sheldon, New York,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. ebook available to read at Internet Archive |
| Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska | Kent, Rockwell. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996), 204 p., paper, ISBN 0819552933, (23 South Main Street, Hanover, NH 03755-2048). Journal of the famed artist who, with his son, spent seven months on an island near Seward in 1918. This is a reprint of the 1920 text with a new introduction by Seward resident Doug Capra. |
| Will the Time Ever Come?: a Tlingit Source Book | Hope, Andrew, III, and Thomas R. Thornton, editors. / (Fairbanks: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, c2000), 159 pp., paper, ISBN 1877962341. Source book on Tlingit culture, a result of the 1993 meeting in Haines that brought together representatives from the Tlingit tribes and clans from Alaska and Canada to exchange and collaborate on future initiatives. |
| Winning the West for Christ: Sheldon Jackson and Presbyterianism on the Rocky Mountain Frontier, 1869-1880 | Bender, Norman J. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 265 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-8263-1670-0, 1720 Lomas Avenue, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591. LC96-004421. The early career of Alaska's most famous Protestant missionary, up to the time when he started his Alaska mission work. |
| Winterdance: the fine madness of running the Iditarod | Paulsen, Gary. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. 256 p. Splendidly written account of grueling race (1180 miles from Anchorage to Nome) which the author ran in 1983 and 1985. ISBN0151262276. LC93-42096. |
| Wit and wisdom of Wally Hickel | Hickel, Walter J. / compiled and edited by Malcolm B. Roberts / Anchorage: Searchers Press, 1994. 239p. Former Governor's short takes reveal his wide range of interests, ideas, and opinions. ISBN0964431602. LC94-93929. |
| Women and minorities in Alaskan aviation | Dorden, Mary Lou, and Deborah Nicholson, edited by Anne Kessler and Naomi Stockdale. / Juneau, AK: Alaska Department of Education (Equity Project, 801 W. 10th St., Ste. 200, Juneau, AK 99801), 1994. 69p. This curriculum guide covers early aviation, careers in aviation, and aviation safety. Each section includes a biography of a woman and a minority person in that field and provides curriculum activities. wln94-304149. |
| Women of Alaska: a Compilation of Interviews, Vol. III and Vol. IV | as conducted by the Athena Project with Mr. James G. Stoops sixth grade gifted class (Anchorage: Anchorage School District, 1996-1998), 2 vols.(123 pp., 97 pp.), O'Malley Elementary School, 11100 Rockridge Drive 99516-1884. Continuing this series, these present transcripts of taped interviews with women of achievement who have visited the school. |
| Women of the Klondike | Backhouse, Frances. (Vancouver: Whitecap Books,1995), 212 p., paper, ISBN 1551103753, 351 Lynn Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2C4. Account of women who joined the gold rush to the Klondike at the turn of the century. wln95-214022. |
| Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands | Brown, Stephen Gilbert. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), 229 pp., paper, ISBN 0791444058, or cloth, ISBN 0791444058, order from Cook Inlet Book Company. Study of literacy; blends vivid personal accounts and theoretical analysis in this account of teacher's experience teaching to Athabascan Indians in Alaska. |
| Working the North: labor and the northwest defense projects | Morrison, William R. / Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 1994. 270p. Anecdotal tales and documents reflecting workers' lives in the North. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN0912006722hdb, ISBN0912006730pbk. LC94-68464 |
| World Apart: My Life Among the Eskimos of Alaska | Corbin, Wilford. (Homer: Wizard Works, 2000), 274 pp., paper, ISBN 1890692034, P.O. Box 1125, Homer, AK 99603. A young North Carolina couple comes north to teach in Wales and Scammon Bay during the 1950s. |
| World Heritage Wilderness: From the Wrangells to Glacier Bay | Matz, George. Volume 26, Number 2 of Alaska Geographic (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1999) 112 pp., paper, ISBN 1566610451, P.O. Box 93370, Anchorage AK 99509-3370. Geography and history of the mountain wilderness which straddles the Alaska-Yukon boundary. |
| World in peril: the origin, mission and scientific finds of the 46th/72nd Reconnaissance Squadron | White, Ken Wayne. / Elkhart, IN: the Author (POB 1446, Elkhart, IN 46515), 1992. Includes some Alaska operations, Project Nanook and B-29 maneuvers in 1940s and 1950s. ISBN1883218101. wln95-52813. |
| World War II in Alaska | Rennick, Penny, editor. , Volume 22, No. 4, Alaska Geographic (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1995), 96 p., paper,P.O. Box 93370, Anchorage, AK 99509. wln96-090999. |
| World War II in Alaska: A Resource Guide for Teachers and Students | Clemens, Janet and Chris Allan. (Anchorage: Alaska Support Office, National Park Service, 1999) 14 pp., comb-bound, 2525 Gambell Street, Room 107, Anchorage AK 99503. Selected bibliographies on twelve different themes form the core of this booklet; Alaskan libraries and museums with WWII materials are also listed, as are selected internet sites. |
| World-Famous Alaska Highway: a Guide to the Alcan and Other Wilderness Roads of the North | Brown, Tricia. (Golden: Fulcrum Pub., c2000), 287 pp., paper, ISBN 1555914462. Traveler's guide for driving the Alcan and other Alaska highways, noting historic sites, attractions, recreation, and automotive concerns. |
| Worthy of Riches | (The Matanuska Series #2) by Bonnie Leon |
