Vernon Nowell

Alaskan Adventure Tales Tall and True # 2 Vernon Nowell

Searching for Adventure? You've found it! "Alaskan Adventure Tales Tall and True #2"! All the stories are true. You don't have to worry about "Stepping in something here!" If you long for Adventure, seek the advice of a World Travler and Hunter such as Jack O'Conner, Shooting Editor of the Outdoor Life Magazine. And while you are wrighting, pen an inquirry to African White Hunter Patrick Hemingway, son of the famous Author, Ernest Hemingway. Follow their advice! Gather your gear and gurbstake to build a cabin in the Wilds of Alaska! Purchase your "One Way" bus ticket to Fairbanks, Alaska for a "one year" hunting and fishing Adventure Trip that has lasted a Lifetime! Join two eighteen year old Memphis, TN youths on a 4,380 mile bus ride to Fairbanks, AK, knowing no one and or where they would settle in Alaska. Only one would remain the cold winter and complete the construction of a sprue log cabin with the use of a Swede Saw, draw knife and axe. Spred your bedroll and send a "Sprit Filled" night while sleeping in a Whitehorse, YT Indian Grave Yard. Be lured into the lair of a Canadian Catholic Knights of Columbus Pedophile and survive. Ever meet a "Guiding Angel"? Let me introduce you to John Kerr Whitfield, Oglala Sioux Guiding Angel. Relish the panaramic beauty and the constant "click and clatter" on the Alaska Railroad ride from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Be sure and "Buckle your Seatbelt" on our first airplane flight on the Pacific Northern Airways DC-3 with Pratt and Whitney R-1830 radial engines! Too Young to file on a homestead, What Now? Near fatal accident in our Wall Tent Home on the banks of Bishop Creek, North Kenai, Alaska. Building the State of Alaska's First Oil Pipeline! I didn't believe eigher until the "Search for Athabaskan Monkey Man Sasquatch." Tramping Through Gold Country. Lean Times at the Lonesome Cabin on Bishop Creek. Miraculous Rescue in Kachemak Bay. The Methuselah Bull Moose of Lake Clark Pass. Come join me around the camp fire. I'll stur the fire and put on a fresh pot of coffee. If the bugs are bothering you, sit down wind. Settle in, there are many more stories to hear!