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

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 two dozen 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.
 

Thousands of tourists flock to Alaska to hunt and fish in dramatic landscapes and on pristine waters. A network of guides and lodges caters to those men and women, and wildlife biologists track the animals to insure healthy populations. The Last Frontier has nurtured homegrown fishing and hunting legends for generations. The more than two dozen colorful characters highlighted in the book transcend the act of merely catching fish or shooting game. While the men and women are celebrated due to their incredible skills, it’s their ability to raise positive awareness or help others to gain a greater appreciation for Alaska’s fish and wildlife resources that separates them from others. Alaska’s Fishing and Hunting Legends celebrates many of these amazing personalities with a remarkable historical perspective combined with colorful anecdotes and new insights. Many of the historic images in the chapters—discovered in family archives—have never been published. It’s certain to both entertain and serve as a treasured resource for all those interested in Alaska’s history and outdoors lore.