ALASKA'S LOST FRONTIER
Life in the days of homesteads, dog teams
and sailboat fisheries
by Denton Rickey Moore
Pages 448
ISBN: 0-9628828-8-7
Price: $19.95 postpaid (softcover)
$27.95 postpaid (hardcover)
In the tradition of master story teller Jack London, Denton Rickey Moore relates a wonderful family story and true adventure that celebrates Alaskan optimism in the face of very grim realities. With pathos and humor, he recounts a story of life in pre-statehood Alaska, where the biggest obstacles to the homesteader and fisherman's survival were variously the weather, criminals, disease, poverty, bureaucrats, hostile industrial interests and politicians. A wonderful story to capture the imagination!
REVIEWS
Alaska Magazine:
This book is an honest and unsentimental account of the "good old days." In his autobiography, former Governor Jay S. Hammond described his neighbor and opponent, Denny Moore, as "controversial." In his own autobiography, Moore jokes that Hammond "saw it as his civic duty to keep me out of public life." Moore's book spans the years 1946 to 1962. He did a lot of different things in Alaska -- taught school, fished, marketed low bush cranberries, and ran a sawmill, a cannery and two newspapers. What readers can learn from this book is just how much rural life has changed in Alaska since statehood. Moore provides a personal and detailed account of the dangerous Bristol Bay salmon fishery before gas engines. The book is of definite historic interest.
Governor Jay Hammond:
"This is a great read!"
Former Deputy Commissioner Jim Brooks:
"Wonderfully well written; the trip with the horses compares with something Steinbeck might have written."