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My Way Was North: An Alaskan Autobiography
Frank Dufresne went to Alaska as a young man to recover from the spiritual fatigue of World War I, and almost immediately, the two-Dufresne and Alaska-- became inseparable. In his autobiography, the author of
No Room for Bears
also writes a loving biography of the rough, beautiful, and exciting place that was Alaska in the 1920's and 30's. The book is filled with spell-bin
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Hardcover
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274 pages
Published
1966
by Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1st edition
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Frank Dufresne spent "two worthless years" in the trenches in France during WWI. When he returned to the US in 1920 he travelled to Nome, Alaska in search of an uncle who had disappeared during the gold rush. While in Alaska he fell in love with the Artic land and wildlife. He accepted a job gathering field data for Dr. Edward Nelson of The Smithsonian Natural History Department. He also fell in love with a musher, Klondy, with whom he raised two children in Alaska.
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Frank Dufresne went to Alaska as a young man to recover from the spiritual fatigue of World War I, and almost immediately, the two-Dufresne and Alaska-- became inseparable. In his autobiography, the author of No Room for Bears also writes a loving biography of the rough, beautiful, and exciting place that was Alaska in the 1920's and 30's.
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