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Alaska's Skyboys - Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier (Paperback)
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Alaska's Skyboys - Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier (Paperback)
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List price R642
Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
You Save R89 (14%)
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This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska
examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the
territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism.
Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the
highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on
glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were
consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as
cowboys-and their planes compared to settlers' covered wagons-the
reality was that aviation catapulted Alaska onto a modern, global
stage; the federal government subsidized aviation's growth in the
territory as part of the Cold War defense against the Soviet Union.
Through personal stories, industry publications, and news accounts,
historian Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth uncovers the ways that
Alaska's aviation growth was downplayed in order to perpetuate the
myth of the cowboy spirit and the desire to tame what many
considered to be the last frontier.
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