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On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden
Take to the air with veteran bush pilot and game warden Ray Tremblay in these lively adventure stories of Alaska’s early game-law enforcement. During a career spanning nearly thirty years, Tremblay earned the respect of his fellow pilots and game cops, as well as biologists, trappers, hunters, and fishermen who appreciated his sincere concern for the protection and wise use of the fish and wildlife in the Territory, then State of Alaska. Gifted with good humor, common sense, and uncommon storytelling ability, Tremblay offers two dozen remarkable first-person accounts that are worthy of laugh-aloud and read-aloud status—to the guy in the next room.

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On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden
Take to the air with veteran bush pilot and game warden Ray Tremblay in these lively adventure stories of Alaska’s early game-law enforcement. During a career spanning nearly thirty years, Tremblay earned the respect of his fellow pilots and game cops, as well as biologists, trappers, hunters, and fishermen who appreciated his sincere concern for the protection and wise use of the fish and wildlife in the Territory, then State of Alaska. Gifted with good humor, common sense, and uncommon storytelling ability, Tremblay offers two dozen remarkable first-person accounts that are worthy of laugh-aloud and read-aloud status—to the guy in the next room.

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On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden

On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden

On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden
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On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden

On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden

Overview

Take to the air with veteran bush pilot and game warden Ray Tremblay in these lively adventure stories of Alaska’s early game-law enforcement. During a career spanning nearly thirty years, Tremblay earned the respect of his fellow pilots and game cops, as well as biologists, trappers, hunters, and fishermen who appreciated his sincere concern for the protection and wise use of the fish and wildlife in the Territory, then State of Alaska. Gifted with good humor, common sense, and uncommon storytelling ability, Tremblay offers two dozen remarkable first-person accounts that are worthy of laugh-aloud and read-aloud status—to the guy in the next room.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780882405735
Publisher: TURNER PUB CO
Publication date: 09/01/2004
Series: Caribou Classics
Edition description: Illustrated
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 787,852
Product dimensions: 5.52(w) x 8.36(h) x 0.62(d)
Age Range: 13 Years

About the Author

After retiring to Anchorage, Ray Tremblay stayed active in the summer with commercial fishing for halibut and sportfishing for salmon. In winters, he was busy traveling and writing. He and his wife, Elsie, were married for fifty years and had six children and eleven grandchildren. Sadly, Ray passed away in August 2004, one month before the release of On Patrol.

Jim Rearden was outdoor editor for Alaska magazine for 20 years.

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On Patrol

True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden
By Ray Tremblay

Alaska Northwest Books

Copyright © 2004 Ray Tremblay
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780882405735

“I was a full-time professional trapper in interior Alaska, a life I had dreamed of as a boy. Trapping for a living was a demanding way of life, and it sometimes became very lonely. It was not exactly the romantic life I had envisioned; nevertheless, it suited me. I loved the wilderness and the independent life, as well as the challenge of wresting a living from the land. I felt I was in control of my life.

This way of life finally came to an end, however, because of forces over which I had no control. In the spring of 1952, a scant three years after I took to the trapline trails, fur prices dropped to an all-time low. As I took my winter’s catch of marten, mink, otter, wolverine, and wolves to sell to fur-buyers in Fairbanks, I became downhearted with the prices I was offered for a hard winter’s work.”



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Table of Contents

Foreword 4, Map 6, Introduction 8, Part I The 1950s: Enforcing Federal Game Laws in the Territory of Alaska 12, Part II The 1960s Big Changes in a Baby State

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From the Publisher

…an inviting mixture of history and memoir, with many an engaging anecdote about Alaska before and immediately after statehood. Tremblay loves Bush Alaska and loved his work, especially flying, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He brings to life an Alaska that now is only a memory.

                                                                        —Michael Carey, Anchorage Daily News

Ray can spin a yarn with the best of them...and make you believe it because it's all true.   —-Jay Hammond, Governor of Alaska 1974 - 1982.

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