Fearless Men and Fabulous Women

In a memoir overflowing with humor, excitement, and a sense of being there for major events, reporter Stanton H. Patty reflects on a fifty-year career covering heroic, larger-than-life characters and the roles they played in the history of Alaska and the Yukon. Patty recounts the struggles of Alaska's Native people to win their rightful land claims, goes whaling with Eskimo friends, and flies with daring bush pilots--his boyhood heroes. This son of pioneer Alaskans also tells of a boy's life in rough-and-tumble gold camps along the Yukon River. He salutes women of the north country - unstoppable, he calls them, who mushed dog teams, survived the brutality of World War II in the Aleutian Islands, and made comfortable homes on a challenging frontier. He documents the Good Friday earthquake that jolted Alaska in 1964. He meets the one and only Klondike Kate, Charles A. Lindbergh, and other notables.