We Poked a Hole in the Wind
Author: Loyal McCammond
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780984355884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Loyal McCammond
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780984355884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carla Williams
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1602233551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn’t deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living conditions, performing and excelling at “a man’s job in a man’s world.” They faced down challenges on and off the job: they drove buses over ice roads through snowstorms; wrestled with massive pipes; and operated dangerous valves that put their lives literally in their hands; they also fought union hall red tape, challenged discriminatory practices, and fought for equal pay—and sometimes won. The women talk about the roads that brought them to this unusual career, where they often gave up comfort and convenience and felt isolated and alienated. They also tell of the lifelong friendships and sense of family that bonded these unlikely wildcats. The physical and emotional hardship detailed in these stories exemplifies their courage, tenacity, resilience, and leadership, and shows how their fight for recognition and respect benefited woman workers everywhere.
Author: Charles Robert Brown
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780803261457
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Author: Jim Ross
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1445239353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A life of travel from inside this world, to the next. A look at life, and visitations by a nomad from all four corners of the world.
Author: Sascha Feinstein
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2017-02-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1611487862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about growing up with a father, a superb painter and teacher of art, who found meaning in almost all discarded artifacts. In this memoir Feinstein explores the bizarre thread of creativity and destruction, offering gratitude for an artistic legacy while confronting the physical and emotional wreckage his father left behind.
Author: Dennis Fishel
Publisher: Dragonon, Inc.
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 097633982X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Blending wry wit with a dose of regional flair, this fun-loving story reaffirms that not everything is as it seems, especially when youre only thirteen years old.
Author: John William Jaacks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 148368430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CONTRAILS Memoirs of A Cold Warrior Jack Jaacks writes a moving personal account of a Midwestern farm boy who dreamed of becoming a military officer and an Air Force Pilot. During the Cold War of the 1950's an attack against the United States by Russian bombers carrying nuclear bombs was believed to be a certainty. America built an Air Defense system to protect itself. Nearly 2000 fighter-interceptor aircraft and 5,000 pilots guarded the skies above America Like fighter pilots of generations before them, the U.S. Air Defense Command pilots flew into hostile skies and lived out the dreams of their youth. And, like their forefathers, many died in keeping America free. No Soviet bomber ever penetrated the U. S. Air Defenses. Jaacks flew the first jet Fighter-Interceptors, the Sabers, Starfires, Scorpions and Delta Daggers in Alaska, the continental U.S., Canada, and in Europe with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Contrails describes the intensity of a life of an interceptor pilot and how Jaacks became a member of the elite cops of aviators that was the first line of defense against a Soviet nuclear attack against America.
Author: Joy Jordan-Lake
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781410422743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a time when America was well beyond the Civil Rights era, Shelby Lenoir Maynard discovered, in a simple gesture of extending friendship to the new girl in town, just how deep ignorance--and hatred--can burn.