| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Beginnings -- Welcome to Cordova -- Hiking the Iron Trail -- Recuperation -- The mine -- Low man on the totem pole -- Bud is back -- The country -- The road house -- Forest fire -- Mining something else -- Prohibition and no inhibition -- Finishing the season -- Off season -- Dog teaming : origin of a mistake -- Adopt-a-team -- The dogs teach us to mush -- Beefing up the kennel -- The education continues -- New equipment -- Early winter -- Kennecott -- Learning Alaska history -- Outfitting -- The trail -- Taming live glaciers -- Near death on Skolai Pass -- Strategic withdrawal -- Return to Skolai -- Boyden's saga -- Over the pass -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a copper mine and mushing dogs-first for adventure, and then as a mail carrier. Lambert left Alaska in 1931 to study art for a year at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then moved to Seattle, where he began a mentorship under Eustace Ziegler, with whom he traveled throughout Alaska and painted. Eventually Lambert settled down in Fairbanks, |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lambert, Ted (Theodore Roosevelt), 1905-approximately 1960.
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Lambert, Ted (Theodore Roosevelt), 1905-approximately 1960 fast |
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Painters -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Painters
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Travel
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Alaska -- Biography
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Alaska -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003144
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Alaska
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United States
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freedman, Lew
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| ISBN |
9781602231665 |
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1602231664 |
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