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Softcover. 330 pages. 6"x9"x1". 18 B&W photos. Published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright 1998. ISBN: 1-57510-047-9. (From the back cover of the book) 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 leaned from personal observation the life secrets of moose, caribou, foxes, wolverines, mountain sheep, grizzly bears, and wolves-especially wolves. A crack shot, self-sufficient, and wilderness wise, Glaser not only survived, but prospered in the far lonely places. Almost always alone, he survived many encounters with charging grizzly bears, some of which he had to shoot to keep from being mauled. He knew how to cope with 50 and 60 below zero temperatures, and more than once he plunged through river ice in extreme cold and survived only because of his woods know-how. Frank Glasser was a legend in his own time, respected and admired for his skill as a woodsman and hunter by fellow sourdoughs, and by his many Eskimo friends. "Nothing that has been written about Alaska captures so intensely the vastness, the loneliness, the natural savagery of this land as Alaska's Wolf Man. It surpasses anything that Ernest Thompson Seton or Jack London ever did and is far more real because it is actual distilled experience that cannot be contrived. This is a class that will stand tall in the literature of Alaska." Cliff Cernick, former editor of the Anchorage Daily News and The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and currently Alaska Editor of the Western Flyer. Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction, by Governor Jay Hammond Book One: Market Hunting, 1915-1924 1. To Alaska 2. Fairbanks 3. Market Hunting 4. The Chetaslina Grizzly 5. In the Army 6. Freighting With Dogs 7. The Box Canyon Grizzly 8. Doctor's Orders 9. Trapping Caribou 10. A Miner Alone Book Two: At Savage River, 1924-1937 11. At Savage River 12. Savage River Wolves 13. The Wolf Dogs 14. A Few Mosquito Bites 15. Queenie 16. Kenai 17. Ghost Grizzly 18. Moose and Caribou 19. My Lady Judas 20. Hunting Wolves 21. The Neighborhood Killers 22. The Wolverine Book Three: Government Wolf Hunter, 1937-1955 23. Government Wolf Hunting 24. To the White Mountains 25. At Mount Hayes 26. To the Arctic 27. Amaguq Frank 28. The Teller Wolf 29. Aerial Wolf Hunting 30. Will Wolves Attack a Man? Epilogue Index Previously published Rearden-Glaser stories About the Author Notes Index
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