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|  | | Art and Eskimo Power: The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock
The extraordinary biography of of a gifted Inupiat artist who gave up his career to help his fellow Alaska Natives defend their unique heritage.
He was born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo Village in northwest Alaska where the people had hunted whales and lived off the land and the sea for centuries. Instead of becoming a hunter, Rock was to become an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor. He helped defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near the village with a, huge, above-ground atomic blast, then founded the Tundra Times newspaper to give them a voice.
Under Rock's leadership, the newspaper helped organize Alaska's Nati | |  | | Eskimo Star: From the Tundra to Tinseltown: The Ray Mala Story
To Be Released June 1, 2011. The biography of a traditionally raised Inupiat Eskimo who became the first and only Native American to attain international movie star status, and also pioneered the film industry as a cinematographer.
The blazing marquee of the plush Astor Theater in New York City billed the 1933 premier of i>Eskimo/i> as "THE BIGGEST PICTURE EVER MADE," propelling a 27-year-old Inupiat Eskimo from Candle, Alaska, to overnight stardom. The handsome actor was not only the first Alaskan to become a Hollywood movie star but also the first non-white actor to play a leading role.
This is the story of Ray Wise Mala, the talented and enterprising son of an itinerant Russian trader and an Eskimo mother. Mala became part of the white man's world but most of his life struggled to find a p | |  | | Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
This book placed sixth among 100 best nonfiction books selected by the Los Angeles Times and remains a regional best seller.
Because of it, the author was voted Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Far North--the prositutes and other "disreputable" women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving behind their hometowns and most constrainsts of the post-Victorian era, the "good time girls" crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak and sometimes astonishing wealth. | |  | | Wanton West:: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Fronti
Pub Date: June 1, 2011
An illicite history of Montana and the women who pioneered it.
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Providing new insights into women’s struggle for equality, this historical study shows the true story of the women of old Montana. With few career options available in the 19th century, many of the most independent and enterprising women turned to the world’s oldest profession for a lucrative source of income. Author Lael Morgan brings to life the lively and eccentric characters who tamed the West's wildest region from the time of the gold rush to the election of the first woman to U.S. C |
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