Go North Young Man - Homesteading on Kenai Peninsula Alaska 1957 by GORDON STODDARD

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Title: Go North, Young Man: Modern Homesteading in Alaska

Author: Gordon Stoddard

Description: Blue cloth boards stamped in red. Slight soiling to cloth. Endpapers show natural staining along gutter. Interior is unmarked, pages clean. Dust jacket is edge-chipped and has a few closed tears; not price clipped ($3.50). DJ in archival sleeve. Illustrated with 38 b/w photos. 239 pp. 8.5 x 5.3 inches.

The author's account of his first four years homesteading on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (near Homer on the Cook Inlet). Stoddard left San Francisco in 1951 and guided by ''How to Build a Cabin'' pamphlet, he puts up his first cabin in three days. Later he builds his log cabin with the mail-order stove. For food, he concentrates on fish, snow shoe rabbits, spruce chickens, ptarmigan, ducks and geese. He introduces his neighbors, describes the bears and other wildlife, his pet companions, and makes account of his fishing, hunting and farming, and the seasonal changes of daily homesteading life.

Gordon Anthony Stoddard (1924-2006) was born in Berkeley, California. Prior to moving to Alaska, he served in the South Pacific with the US Navy during World War II.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good

Publisher: Binfords & Mort
Place: Portland, Oregon
Year: 1957

Keywords: Alaska, Kenai Peninsula, Homer, Cook Inlet, homesteading,

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