Alaska inspires a pot full of adjectives that can leave your head swimming. It is a place, and it is big. Really big. And raw, and overwhelming. But not just a place, it is a way of life and a state of mind. You have to be an Alaskan to even begin to understand.
A biography in the form of short life stories, the author's memoir takes us to a rural Bush life where people live off the land, drill their own wells, put out their own forest fires, and depend on their neighbors to pick up their mail.
Surrounded by nature, he continues to fly, plow, run his bulldozer, and wrangle his subsistence fishwheel up the river every year in the Skwentna area of Alaska, where temperatures in winter drop to 45 below zero and summers can see entire months without rain. Follow him in this (mostly) nonfiction anthology of (somewhat) true stories from the Last Frontier as he gives the straight scoop about bears, outhouses, farming, flooding, fishing, moose, guns, and aviation in the 49th State.
If you are interested in guns, planes, flying, hunting, fishing, snow machining, bulldozers, building in the bush, and/or interesting people, these stories will entertain you for hours.
