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The city beneath the snow : stories
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ISBN: 1602231567 9781602231566 9781602231382 1602231389 9781602231559 1602231559 9781602231832 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks, AK : 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 : two centuries of history and a forgotten stampede
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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 : Gordon Haber's insights into Alaska's most misunderstood animal
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ISBN: 1602232199 9781602232198 9781602232181 1602232180 Year: 2013 Publisher: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press,

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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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Alaska, laatste halte
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ISBN: 9061523044 Year: 1978 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds

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So They Understand
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ISBN: 0874215501 9786612490477 1282490478 0874214882 9780874214888 9780874215502 Year: 2002 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives. The title of the book comes from a quotation by Chief Peter John, the traditional chief of the Tanana Chiefs region in central Alaska: ""In between the lines is something special going on in their minds, and that has--

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