Old Alaska II

Events of the 1900s

Jim Rearden

Here are just some of the fascinating stories about Alaska in the 1900s collected by Jim Rearden, one of the state’s premier writers:

  • Former Marine Bill Brody fought a huge grizzly bear with bare hands—and survived
  • Frontier woman Fannie Quigley mined gold and outdid many men in use of plain language
  • The strange life of Cap Lathrop, at one time Alaska’s richest man
  • The amazing story of the wreck of the passenger/freight SS Yukon
  • Saga of the Ice Ship Bear
  • Tales of legendary Bush pilots.

272 pages, paperback, 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57510-172-9

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