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The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present
The Last New Land Stories of Alaska Past and Present Author:Wayne Mergler (Editor) Through time, tales both oral and written have immortalized America's last wilderness. Editor Wayne Mergler scoured Alaska's literary tradition for the best writing the state has to offer, and did not come up empty-handed. — From the Native legends of the Creation, to Jack London's stirring stories of frontier survival, to John Haines... more »'s more contemporary reflections on homesteading, The Last New Land gathers a rich and comprehensive sampling of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Northland. Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist.
The Creation Legend / Tlingit Legend; How Raven Brought Light / Eskimo Legend; Legend of the Aurora Borealis / Eskimo Legend; How Mosquitoes Came to Be / Tlingit Legend; "People of the North" Alaska / James A. Michener; Summer Light / Elyse Guttenberg; Tundra Song / Tim McNulty; Mother Earth, Father Sky / Sue Harrison; "The Old Man's Winter" The Last Light Breaking / Nick Jans; The Circle of Totems / Peggy Shumaker; The Sea Gull / Eskimo Legend; "The Tragedy of Anna Petrovna" Russian America / Hector Chevigny; Ashana / E. P. Roesch; Sitka / Louis L'Amour; "The Killing" The Spoilers and "A New Crisis" The Iron Trail / Rex Beach; Do You Fear the Wind? / Hamlin Garland; Two in the Far North / Margaret E. Murie; "Uncle Charley" My Way Was North / Frank Dufresne; Tisha / Robert Specht; Only Come to Visit / Tom Linklater; Looking Back and Remember / Joanne Townsend; Radovin / Tim McNulty; The Little Old Lady Who Lived Alone / Athabaskan Legend; "Eggs" Once Upon An Eskimo Time / Edna Wilder; "July 13th" Libby / Betty John; Fifty Years below Zero / Charles D. Brower;Alaska / Joaquin Miller; "Fairbanks to the Chandalar Through Circle City and Fort Yukon" Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled / Hudson Stuck; At the Foot of Denali / Tim McNulty; Dogmusher / Ruben Gaines; "The Sourdough Expedition, 1910" To the Top of Denali / Bill Sherwonit; "No Man's Land" Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden; "Alaska" In the Shadow of Eagles / Rudy Billberg/Jim Rearden; A River Ran Out of Eden / James Vance Marshall; The Tundra and The Way We Live / John Haines; Daughter of the Gold Rush / Klondy Nelson; "The Birth of a Cabin" One Man's Wilderness / Richard Proenneke/Sam Keith; Change / Charles J. Keim; Volcano / Nancy Lord; Tales of the North / Sheila Nickerson; Whalescape and Berrying / Ann Fox Chandonnet; "Lost" The Stars, the Snow, the Fire / John Haines; Slade's Glacier / Robert F. Jones; Chenega / Tom Sexton; Exit Glacier / Peggy Shumaker; Murder On the Iditarod Trail / Sue Henry; Willow Was Her Name / Dixie Alexander; Nomadic Inupiat, For Kappaisruk / Sister Goodwin; "Southeastern Alaska" Alaska Blues / Joe Upton; Working On the Edge / Spike Walker; "Flying For 1002" Navigations / Ted Kerasote; The Mammoth Hunters / Eskimo Legend; "Aghvook Comes" Island Between / Margaret E. Murie; "Spearing Grizzly Bears" Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden; A Moose Calling and "of Traps and Snares" The Stars, the Snow, the Fire / John Haines; "Bear, and More Bear" The Cheechakoes / Wayne Short; The Moose Kill / Margaret G. Mielke; "The Battle of the Giants" Look to the Wilderness / W. Douglas Burden; "Moon of the Returning Sun" Shadow of the Hunter / Richard K. Nelson; The Ten-Footed Polar Bear / Eskimo Legend; "Moose: Season of the Painted Leaves" Shadows of the Tundra / Tom Walker’ "Tornarssuk (Ursus Maritimus)" Arctic Dreams / Barry Lopez; "Dall" Cowboys Are My Weakness / Pam Houston; "Sheefish Time" The Last Light Breaking / Nick Jans; Two With Spears / Carolyn Kremers; "Beautiful Meat" A Place Beyond / Nick Jans; The Wolfmen and the Hunter / Eskimo Legend; "Let Us Die Trying" Two Old Women / Velma Wallis; Lost Face ; To Build a Fire / Jack London; The Cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service; "Nimrod" Home Country / Ernie Pyle; "The Flood" Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden; Brother Wolverine / Mary Tallmountain; "The Village Is Taken" The Wind Is Not a River / Arnold A. Griese; "Devils Canyon" Wager with the Wind / James Greiner; "March 1: -148(Degrees)" Minus 148(Degrees) / Art Davidson; "Possessing the Land" Road Song / Natalie Kusz; The Man and the Loon / Athabaskan Legend; The Prince and the Salmon People / Tlingit Legend; The Man Who Became a Caribou / Eskimo Legend; The White Seal / Rudyard Kipling; Strikeen / John Muir; Jack London / William Stafford; "The Gray Cub" White Fang / Jack London; "The Dark Song" Icebound Summer / Sally Carrighar; Gentle Ben / Walt Morey; The Field of the Caribou ; Wolves / John Haines; Wolves, For John Haines / Tom Sexton; The Red Snow / James Greiner; "Woodsman" Make Prayers to the Raven / Richard K. Nelson; Lives of Animals ; Winter / Linda Schandelmeier; At the Tetlin River / Carolyn Kremers; "Grizzly Habitat" No Room For Bears / Frank Dufresne; "The Changing Times" Kahtahah / Frances Lackey Paul; Ice Palace / Edna Ferber; Where the People Are / Ruben Gaines; Ballet in Bethel / Fred Bigjim; The War Canoe / Jamie S. Bryson; "The Scene and the People" Out of the North / Ronald Johnson; "Shattered Dreams" Johnny's Girl / Kim Rich; Winter Ferry: Haines to Juneau / Richard Dauenhauer; The Woman Who Married a Bear / John Straley; Anchorage / Tom Sexton; Progress / Karen Randlev; Burying the Tongue Bone / Seth Kantner; Salmon Egg Puller--$2.15 An Hour / Nora Marks Dauenhauer; "The Men and the Work and the Northern Mystique" Inside the Alaska Pipeline / Ed McGrath; "The Man All Covered With Mouths" Stalking the Ice Dragon: An Alaskan Journey / Susan Zwinger; "The Native Villages" In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez / Art Davidson; "Skin" In Extremis and Other Alaskan Stories / Jean Anderson; Alex Marks, Tlingit Carver / Richard Speakes; A Cold-Blooded Business / Dana Stabenow; "Perspectives" Edges of the Earth / Richard Leo; Grandma and the Eskimos / Richard Allen Blessing; "Beat the Qaaviks" The Last Light Breaking / Nick Jans « less