Fearless Men and Fabulous Women
Fearless Men and Fabulous Women: A Reporter's Memoir from Alaska & the Yukon Stanton H. Patty,
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 0974501409
Edition: Paperback; 2004-04-01
Summary:
In a memoir overflowing with humor, excitement, and a sense of "being
there" for major events, reporter Stanton H. Patty reflects on a
fifty-year career covering heroic, larger-than-life characters and
the roles they played in the history of Alaska and the Yukon. Patty
recounts the struggles of Alaska's Native people to win their
rightful land claims, goes whaling with Eskimo friends, and flies
with daring Bush pilots-his boyhood heroes. This son of pioneer
Alaskans also tells of a boy's life in rough-and-tumble gold camps
along the Yukon River. He salutes women of the north
country-"unstoppable," he calls them-who mushed dog teams, survived
the brutality of World War II in the Aleutian Islands, and made
comfortable homes on a challenging frontier. He documents the Good
Friday earthquake that jolted Alaska in 1964. He meets the one and
only Klondike Kate, Charles A. Lindbergh, and other notables.
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