If anyone has please email me and we can work out getting them.

Here are a few that are sort of what I am looking for.

Warren Troy, Trails, Wilderness reckoning, The last homestead.

Shadows of the Koyukuk

Look to the wilderness

Alaska's wolfman

Nights of ice, Working on the edge. By Spike walker

The final frontiersman

Going to extremes

Devil in deerskins

These are just a few of the sort I am interested in. This is not a comprehensive list. Just a sample so if you have a recommendation in this realm I am open.


Email in profile.

Thank you. orc

Yukon Summer, although I admit I haven’t read it since the ‘80’s.

Please, please, please, not the retard in the bus.

ETA: Warren’s a good guy.

Ones I have but haven’t read so no guarantees:

Courtrooms, Cartridges, and Campfires by Wayne Ross

The Rescue Season by Bob Drury (PJs)

Never Quit by Jimmy Settle (PJs, by an Alaskan PJ)

Not necessarily Alaska, but I read Kaboloona long ago and it made a lasting impression.

To Build a Fire. Jack London

"Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer.

https://www.amazon.com/Into-Wi...he+wild+jon+krakauer

My favorite,
"One Man's Wilderness", by Dick Proenekke
https://www.goodreads.com/book...One_Man_s_Wilderness


I wish I could have visited his cabin at Lake Clark when I went to AK.

I love the true story about Dick Proeneke, who lived alone in the Alaska wilderness for 30 years. There's a book and DVD (he filmed himself building his cabin etc). It's a fantastic story.

One Man's Wilderness (book)

Alone in the Wilderness (DVD)

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Originally posted by onegeek:
Please, please, please, not the retard in the bus.

Took less than 6 hours...

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
To Build a Fire. Jack London

^^^THIS^^^
Actually, I love most of Jack London's work. White Fang, The Call Of The Wild, are all good reads on a winter night.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by onegeek:
Please, please, please, not the retard in the bus.

Took less than 6 hours...

Guilty as charged! My defense: I did not catch that in onegeek's reply.

It's semi-fresh in my mind as we drove fairly close to the site last summer (on the paved Parks Highway). A restaurant in Healy has a replica of the bus that was used for the movie (which I have to rent some day).

https://www.49statebrewing.com/the-bus/

This link says it's the real bus, that is incorrect:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/59476

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
To Build a Fire. Jack London

I also recommend this. Some 45 years after reading "To Build A Fire" I remember it in vivid detail every time I get a cold shiver in the deer stand. By comparing the character's desperate attempts to warm himself to stay alive in the bitterly cold Alaska bush to my shivering in a "moderately" cold pre-dawn November morning in Kentucky, I realize how big a wimp I really am!!

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
Guilty as charged! My defense: I did not catch that in onegeek's reply.

It's semi-fresh in my mind as we drove fairly close to the site last summer (on the paved Parks Highway). A restaurant in Healy has a replica of the bus that was used for the movie (which I have to rent some day).

https://www.49statebrewing.com/the-bus/

This link says it's the real bus, that is incorrect:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/59476

That's OK. Looking back I realize that I shouldn't have insulted an entire group of people who are generally very nice by comparing them to someone who basically chose to kill himself (consciously or not is still up for debate). And by several critiques and follow-on articles, Krakaeur didn't have any real handle on what was going on.

Also popular are the several hatchet-job books about Sarah Palin, or her own self-serving book. But other than the stench of crap, the Palin books are not about the outdoors.

On topic please. Do not bring political crap into non political threads please.

I found the two by Spike Walker. Nights of Ice and working on the edge. And The final frontiersman.

Still wouldn't mind finding some of the others I mentioned or those recommended in this thread.

Email in profile if you wish to sell.

Thanks to all.

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Originally posted by 4x5:
I love the true story about Dick Proeneke, who lived alone in the Alaska wilderness for 30 years. There's a book and DVD (he filmed himself building his cabin etc). It's a fantastic story.

One Man's Wilderness (book)

Alone in the Wilderness (DVD)

Some or maybe all of the video this guy took of himself is on YouTube if you go looking.

If the Canadian North Country is close enough I would recommend “Silver Chief, Dog of the North.” Written by Jack O’Brien in 1933, it’s the story of a Mountie and his dog. The copy I have was given to me when I was 10 years old, and I still have it. Kind of like London in that the book transcends age groups.

Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie, Terry Tempest Williams.

From Amazon

"This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society. Mardy's work as one of the earliest female voices for the wilderness movement earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

That is probably not the book that would interest me much b92f

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That is probably not the book that would interest me much b92f

It's been a number of years since I read it, but I don't think it's as bad as the quote from Amazon makes it. I don't recall that there was much of the "bunny humper" stuff, if that's what you're worried about. But again it has been a number of years.

Successful Gold Mining by Jack & Todd Hoffman. Don't worry, it is a short read.