Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots - Hardcover

Levi, Steven C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802783317 ISBN 13: 9780802783318

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Explores the seventy-year history of aviation in the rugged terrain of Alaska, where bush pilots transported supplies, personnel, mail, wildlife, and criminals

About this title

About the Author:

Steven C. Levi is a long-term Alaskan writer and historian. He spent his first year as a teacher in the Bush and has been writing about Alaska's history and its Bush pilot heritage for three decades. He has more than 30 books in print, the most recent being a history of the Alaska Gold Rush, Boom or Bust in the Alaska Gold Fields, an Alaska Gold Rush novel CADZOW, and this book, Cowboys of the Sky, which was a selection of the Alaska Library Association's Battle of the Books. Levi lives in Anchorage with his wife, Susan.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up?A delightful nonfiction romp. Nowhere else will you find Alaskan aeronautical anecdotes related with such humor for an adolescent audience. From Harold "Thrill 'Em, Chill 'Em, Spill 'Em, But No Kill 'Em" Gillam to Archie Ferguson, "The Craziest Pilot in the World," the author describes in colorful, humorous detail the daredevil lives of the early pilots who braved the elements and distance to service remote villages in the vast Alaskan "bush." Going by decades from the 1920s to the present, the history of the heyday of Alaskan aviation comes alive. The exploits of the daring "Sky Cowboys" glorify a vanishing breed, now considerably tamed by FAA regulations; however, Levi does not glorify the pilots to the point of deification. He notes the old Alaskan adage, "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots." Numerous historical black-and-white photographs illustrate the text. One discernible error?a photo caption states that Wiley Post and Will Rogers were in Juneau in 1938, when the text states that they died in a crash in 1935.?Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802783317
• ISBN 13: 9780802783318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114