Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends: Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

by Doug Kelly

Overview

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska’s biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state’s dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildlife biologists.

This book honors more than sixty of those remarkably colorful characters, past and present, people whose incredible skills were their calling cards, but whose larger-than-life personalities were what people remember after the trip is over.  Taken together, these portraits offer a history of outdoor life in Alaska and celebrate its incredible natural beauty—and the people who devote their lives to helping us enjoy it.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602232990
Publisher:	University of Alaska Press
Publication date:	08/15/2016
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	1,099,492
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Doug Kelly is the author of Florida’s Fishing Legends and Pioneers and is field editor for Florida Sportsman.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 Nellie Neal Lawing, 1873-1956
2 Frank Glaser, 1887-1974
3 Bill Pinnell, 1898-1990, and Morris Talifson, 1909-2000
4 Sam White, 1891-1976
5 Hal Waugh, 1909-1973
6 Ray Petersen, 1912-2008
7 Sidney Huntington, b. 1915
8 Dick McIntyre, 1917-2009
9 Rene “Frenchy” Lamoureux, 1921-1990
10 Jay Hammond, 1922-2005
11 Jim Brooks, 1922-2006
12 Lindley “Ketch” Ketchum, b. 1923
13 Jim Rearden, b. 1925
14 Sam McDowell, 1927-2013
15 Keith Johnson, b. 1932
16 Cecilia “Pudge” Kleinkauf, b. 1936
17 Dick and Mary Bishop, b. 1937
18 Dennis Hay, 1940-2015
19 Jim Bailey, b. 1940
20 Wayne Heimer, b. 1943
21 James Williams “J.W.” Smith Jr., b. 1943
22 William C. Gasaway, 1943-2011
23 Bob Stephenson, b. 1945
24 Jim Lavrakas, b. 1952
25 Chris Batin, b. 1955
26 John Beath, b. 1960
27 Andy Mezirow, b. 1964
28 More Legends of Alaska’s Great Outdoors
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
 

Editorial Reviews

"Kelly relies on his acquaintance with Alaska for over thirty years, plus contacts with descendants of the legendary hunting and fishing guides who added material including previously unpublished images, and himself mined archives, and on-line resources. Twenty-seven chapters, each about a single legendary outdoor guide ranging in birth from 1873 to 1964, and a concluding chapter with very brief notes about recent people who are ‘legends of Alaska’s great outdoors’ comprehends these legendary people from an historical to a contemporary viewpoint.

Journal of the West

A nice introduction to important men and two women who have made significant contributions to the growth of Alaska as they pursued their diverse outdoor-related occupations.

Alaska History