Alaska -- The Short And Long Of It: Alaska -- The Short And Long Of It

By James A. Von Der Heydt

Take note -- James A. von der Heydt, as formality requires, introduces you to Champagne Charlie. Learn how he got his most interesting name and what drew him to the far north, how he fared once there. Meet, too, Mollie, young lady of the gold rush era, who mined by herself in the Nome goldfields as a proper Victorian lady was not supposed to do. You will like Mollie, alone, pursuing success in a man's world. The memory of Joe Filmore will stay with you, a young wanderer, uneducated, who returns to his boyhood home after many year's absence to find more trouble than any man is entitled to. You will remember well Old Eskimo Simon who fulfills his promise of long before to his own grandfather, to return to that special place, to contact for the last time the ancient spirits of the whale, seal, and caribou. These, and other adventures fill the pages of Alaska, The Short and Long of It. They, as well, merit formal introduction, but to read of them here is the best meeting of all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888125721
• ISBN13: 9781888125726
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Publication Consultants
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"