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The city beneath the snow
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ISBN: 1602231567 9781602231566 9781602231382 1602231389 9781602231559 1602231559 9781602231832 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks University of Alaska Press

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The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, The City Beneath the Snow is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life.""Marjorie Kowalski Cole's characters live, work, and struggle in interior Alaska, and she depicts life here with a keen eye and with compassion. We see the daughter of a Fairbanks junkyard owner struggling with her isolation. We meet a bartender at Circle Hot Springs who's also a certified nurse's assistant at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. ... These are inner lives


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The fur farms of Alaska
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ISBN: 1602231729 9781602231726 9781602231719 1602231710 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks University of Alaska Press

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After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history to life b.


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Among wolves
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ISBN: 1602232199 9781602232198 9781602232181 1602232180 Year: 2013 Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska

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Alaska's wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali's wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber's writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of bei.


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Collaborative work on virus free potato ... annual report.
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ISSN: 21519641 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service


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Canning River Region Northern Alaska
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ISBN: 0259626988 Year: 1919 Publisher: Washington Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The steps leading to the establishment of the base camp at Flaxman Island have already been mentioned. The following account of the writer's personal experiences is presented in the hope that it may be of service to those who are contemplating Arctic travel.


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Rock, water, wild
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ISBN: 1282423851 9786612423857 0803226098 9780803226098 9780803225152 0803225156 9781282423855 6612423854 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America "big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else." In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural w

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Hyperboreal
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ISBN: 0822979144 9780822979142 9780822962625 0822962624 Year: 2013 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press

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Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban centers. Through language, Hyperboreal grants forum to issues of displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and loss of family that King Island people-and all Inuit-are contending with.

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