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In the Shadow of Eagles

From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story

By: Jim Rearden,Rudy Billberg

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In the Shadow of Eagles

From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story

By: Jim Rearden,Rudy Billberg

In the Shadow of Eagles is a uniquely American saga. Rudy Billberg’s story takes readers through the great age of aviation, from his first airplane ride in Minnesota in 1927 to his bush flying career in Alaska beginning in 1941. One of the authentic aviation pioneers, Billberg writes of his countless adventures and close calls during the decades; stunt flying in Midwestern air shows, flying out of Nome into the frozen Arctic, and more. Filled with history and insight, Billberg’s narrative chronicles the lives of many of his fellow Alaskan pilots, including the great pioneer airmen Joe Crosson, Harold Gillam, Noel Wien and Sam White, and tells of the early flying machines they all flew—Travel Airs, Pilgrims, Fairchilds, Bellancas. Rudy Billberg has given us a great story of his time.

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Graphic Arts Books

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088240931X

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9780882409313

Jim Rearden's Alaska

Fifty Years of Frontier Adventure

By: Jim Rearden

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Jim Rearden's Alaska

Fifty Years of Frontier Adventure

By: Jim Rearden

For half a century, Jim Rearden has fulfilled a dream -- traveling throughout the Far North in search of interesting people, places, and events and writing about them. In "Jim Rearden's Alaska", this longtime former outdoors editor for Alaska magazine has combined twenty-two previously published pieces into a single collection. Articles are interspersed with fresh personal insights into a changing Alaska and are illustrated by many of the black-and-white photographs that appeared with the original articles. Rearden shares his favorite stories of early sourdoughs who challenged Alaska's wilderness in the 1920s and '30s; of encounters with wolves, wolverines, and huge brown bears; of the Alaska Scouts who played a key role in the brutal Aleutian Campaign of World War II; of lighthearted and hair-raising adventures of Alaska's early bush pilots; of narrow escapes from death on Mount McKinley and in the Gulf of Alaska; and of a humorous look at Hollywood's attempt to make a "genuine Alaskan" film. "These articles represent my ideal Alaska", Rearden says.

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1575101211

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9781575101217

Sam O. White, Alaskan

Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot

By: Jim Rearden

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Sam O. White, Alaskan

Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot

By: Jim Rearden

This was an excellent book about a true pioneer! A very interesting story about the life of an amazing man. Sam was generous, courageous, and a friend to everyone who had the privilege of knowing him." Sam O. White was a tough, deep-voiced, six-foot-tall, two-hundred-pound former Maine lumberjack and guide. From 1922, for half a century he crisscrossed wild Alaska by foot, with packhorses, dog teams, canoe, riverboat, and airplane. He helped map the Territory, trap fur, and became the world’s first flying game warden. White wrote exciting tales about his Alaska adventures, and those writings make up the bulk of this volume. In 1927, he arrived at Fort Yukon as a game warden when millions of dollars worth of fine arctic furs annually arrived there. The hardy frontier trappers considered the new game warden a joke, but he quickly taught them to respect conservation laws. He was frustrated by the impossibility of adequately patrolling thousands of square miles by dog team, boat, and on foot, so with his own money, he bought an airplane. Pioneer pilots Noel and Ralph Wien taught him how to fly it. White then startled remote trappers and others by suddenly arriving from the sky. In 1941, lack of backing from Juneau headquarters caused him to resign as a wildlife agent. At Fairbanks, Noel Wien made him Chief Pilot for Wien Airlines. For the next two decades White flew as an Alaskan bush pilot, admired for his flying skill and the superior service he provided residents who flew with him, and who depended upon him for receiving mail and supplies. He had countless friends—one hundred arrived for his seventieth birthday party. His integrity and principles were of the highest. Decades after his death, he is still spoken of with awe by the long-time Alaskans.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0882409344

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The Wolves of Alaska

A Fact-based Saga

By: Jim Rearden

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The Wolves of Alaska

A Fact-based Saga

By: Jim Rearden

Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced. Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes exciting segments of his best-selling Alaska's Wolf Man, the story of Frank Glaser, Alaska's full-time government wolf hunter who hunted wolves in the Territory of Alaska 1915-1955. Alaska’s wolves are the main characters in this historically and biologically accurate recounting. Included are vivid anecdotes about wolves with descriptions of their behavior and way of life, examples of their intelligence, and expressions of appreciation for their charm and beauty, as well as an honest look at their savage efficiency as predators and relationship to urban and rural Alaskans.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0882409336

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9780882409337

Sam O. White, Alaskan

Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot

By: Jim Rearden

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Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot

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Shadows on the Koyukuk

An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River

By: Jim Rearden,Sidney Huntington

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Shadows on the Koyukuk

An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River

By: Jim Rearden,Sidney Huntington

“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0882409301

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9780882409306

Alaska's Wolf Man

The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

By: Jim Rearden

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Alaska's Wolf Man

The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

By: Jim Rearden

Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and federal predator agent. A naturalist at heart, he learned from personal observation the life secrets of moose, caribou, foxes, wolverines, mountain sheep, grizzly bears, and wolves—especially wolves.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0882409352

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9780882409351

Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30

And The Winter In Siberia For Eielson and Borland

By: Jim Rearden

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Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30

And The Winter In Siberia For Eielson and Borland

By: Jim Rearden

This book follows the careers of Alaska's pioneering pilots, who, with cranky open-cockpit biplanes, started the great change in Alaska's way of travel. Aviation first arrived at Fairbanks, the trade center of mainland Alaska, from which dog sled trails spider-web to mines, villages, and trap-lines. During winters, goods and people traveled mostly by dog sled. During the summer of 1923 Ben Eielson was the first to fly commercially from Fairbanks, ferrying passengers and light freight with an open cockpit Jenny (JN4) biplane. It was the beginning of the leap from ground travel to the air. Noel Wien was the next. In the summers of 1924-26 he flew open cockpit biplanes from Fairbanks. Starting in 1927, he flew a cabin biplane year-around on scheduled flights in the 579 miles between Fairbanks and Nome. In March, 1929, Wien flew from Alaska to the Elisif, an ice-locked trading schooner in Siberia, to return with a load of valuable furs. In the following November, Ben Eielson repeated this flight to the Nanuk, another ice-bound trading schooner in Siberia. And when he and his mechanic, Earl Borland returned for a second load of Siberian fur, their Hamilton airplane disappeared in a winter snowstorm. This brought on one of the most famous, and difficult aerial searches ever made from and in Alaska. By the 1930s, Alaska's growing aviation industry had revolutionized transportation in the Territory. This volume is a fond look back at the triumphs and tragedies of the pioneering Ben Eielson, Noel Wien, Harold Gillam, Joe Crosson, Ed Young, and others, the great pilots who were the first bush pilots of Alaska.

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Graphic Arts Books

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0882409328

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9780882409320

Arctic Bush Pilot

From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness : a Memoir

By: James Anderson,Jim Rearden

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Arctic Bush Pilot

From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness : a Memoir

By: James Anderson,Jim Rearden

Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs, you name it -- anything needed for life in the bush. He sweated out dozens of dangerous medical-emergency flights, "always at night and in terrible storms." Illustrated with 50 historical photos and co-authored by one of Alaska's most popular writers, ARCTIC BUSH PILOT is an exciting and sometimes nostalgic account of a pioneer pilot and his special place in Alaska aviation history.

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Epicenter Press

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0945397836

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9780945397830

Koga's Zero

The Fighter that Changed World War II

By: Jim Rearden

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Koga's Zero

The Fighter that Changed World War II

By: Jim Rearden

Found upside down in an Alaskan bog in the eighth month of our war with Japan, a Japanese fighter plane was retrieved and soon test flown by U.S. pilots. Knowledge gained from those flights ended the dominance of the Zero in the Pacific

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0882409360

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9780882409368

The Wolves of Alaska

A Fact-based Saga

By: Jim Rearden

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A Fact-based Saga

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Alaska's Wolf Man

The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

By: Jim Rearden

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The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

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In the Shadow of Eagles

From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story

By: Jim Rearden,Rudy Billberg

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From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story

By: Jim Rearden,Rudy Billberg

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Graphic Arts Books

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088240931X

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Rock, Paper, Scissors

By: Jim Hartsell

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Rock, Paper, Scissors

By: Jim Hartsell

When Melissa suggests a game of rock, paper, scissors at the end of their first eat-in dinner at Edward’s apartment, he has no idea what kind of night he’s about to have. His uneventful life as a part time college student and occasional math tutor is upended by their roller coaster relationship. During one of their rocky periods Joey, one of his math students, begins interfering in Edward’s personal life. The intrusion leads to an unexpected and shattering climax, and the fallout irrevocably changes Edward. A subsequent tragedy in Melissa’s life, and his response to it, transforms his understanding of where the two of them are headed, bringing them closer than he had ever thought possible.

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House Mountain Publishing

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9798986544816

Quit Your Day Job!

How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money As a Writer

By: Jim Denney,James D. Denney

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Quit Your Day Job!

How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money As a Writer

By: Jim Denney,James D. Denney

Resolution and perseverance are required to build a writing career and if you're going to succeed, you don't need the hype or hyperbole so often dished out in other writer's guides. You need a candid, no-nonsense account of the daily grind of the writer s life, with the potholes and pitfalls clearly marked. This book is your road map, written by someone who's lived the writing life for years, with more than sixty published novels and nonfiction books to his credit. And what a life! Big names like Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Tom Clancy, Sue Grafton, and thousands of others not nearly as famous live it why shouldn't you? All you need is talent, courage, perseverance and this book. In Quit Your Day Job, Jim Denney lays out a sound, strategic plan for building a career as a full-time writer. This is not a book of fluff and glittering platitudes. Denney maps out the positives and the negatives of the writing life with gritty candor. Why? Because he doesn't want your dream of full-time writing to become your worst nightmare. He wants you to succeed. After you read Quit Your Day Job, you'll be fired up and ready to take on the world. Devour this book then hold on tight, because your life is about to change.

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Quill Driver Books

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1884956041

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Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30

And The Winter In Siberia For Eielson and Borland

By: Jim Rearden

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And The Winter In Siberia For Eielson and Borland

By: Jim Rearden

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Koga's Zero

The Fighter that Changed World War II

By: Jim Rearden

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The Fighter that Changed World War II

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Wonders of Caribou

By: Jim Rearden

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Wonders of Caribou

By: Jim Rearden

Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, migratory habits, and the relationship to man of the North American caribou.

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New York : Dodd, Mead

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0396073611

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9780396073611

Hunting Alaska's Far Places

Half a Century with Rifle and Shotgun

By: Jim Rearden

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Hunting Alaska's Far Places

Half a Century with Rifle and Shotgun

By: Jim Rearden

A collection of 22 previously published magainze articles ("hunting yarns") by Jim Rearden.

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Pictorial Histories Publishing Company

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1575101408

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9781575101408

The Brilliant Disaster

JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

By: Jim Rasenberger

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The Brilliant Disaster

JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

By: Jim Rasenberger

A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416596534

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9781416596530

Risk and Resilience

Adults Who Were the Children of Problem Drinkers

By: Richard Velleman,Jim Orford

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Risk and Resilience

Adults Who Were the Children of Problem Drinkers

By: Richard Velleman,Jim Orford

Risk and Resilience looks at the issue of young adults who grew up in families where a parent, and sometimes both, had a drinking problem. Alcohol-related problems are now recognized as being near the very top of the world league table of health and social problems. Since the large majority of problem drinkers are adults aged between 22 and 55, many are parents with children or adolescents in their care. In the USA alone, there are estimated to be over six million children under the age of 18 living with a parent with a drinking problem, and over 22 million adults - one in every eight American adults - who were brought up with a parent who had a drinking problem. Clearly, many children who grow up in this sort of environment have a difficult childhood. Velleman and Orford examine the question of what happens to such children when they grow up. Risk and Resilience focuses on three main themes: What is the likelihood of such young adults developing drinking problems themselves? Wha

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Routledge

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1135902070

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9781135902070

Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early

By: Jim Mangi

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Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early

By: Jim Mangi

On 2 August 1939, the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in which he declared that ‘it might become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium’. He went on to declare that ‘extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed’. Shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress allocated substantial funds to allow research to be undertaken to follow through on Einstein’s idea and build an atomic bomb. Few, if any, could have imagined what they had agreed to support. But what if actual events had taken a different course? The First Atomic Bomb: An Alternate History to the Ending of WW2 is a highly accurate, thoroughly researched, alternative history presenting a narrative of events exploring what might have happened if the atom bomb had been available somewhat earlier than it really was. What if the atomic bomb had been ready for deployment in, say, February 1945? Had the atomic bomb been ready sooner, how would this have affected the war in Europe, and in particular Germany’s surrender? What would the impact have been in the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, and how would the Soviets have reacted? And what would the following Cold War have looked like? These are all questions and scenarios that the author rigorously examines. Solidly based on real people and actual events, in this book James Mangi describes the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb getting an earlier start after President Roosevelt appointed an energetic scientist, Walter Mendenhall, to study the feasibility of the bomb, instead of the more traditional bureaucrat, Lyman Briggs, he actually chose. This scenario, he reveals, might well have produced a war-ending atomic bomb earlier, the effects of which rippled through the post-war world.

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Frontline Books

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1399093169

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9781399093163

Legacy of Blood

A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies

By: Jim Harper

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Legacy of Blood

A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies

By: Jim Harper

Combining in-depth analysis with over 200 film reviews, 'Legacy of Blood' is a comprehensive examination of the slasher movie and its conventions to date, from 'Halloweeen' to 'Scream' and beyond.

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