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Arctic Exodus: The Last Great Trail Drive
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Product Description
The story of a seventy-year-old man, three thousand reindeer, and a fifteen-hundred-mile trail drive across Alaska.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #841070 in Books
- Published on: 2005-05-01
- Format: Bargain Price
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 312 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
“An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand the Canadian Arctic in all its peril and glory.” --Scott Young
From the Back Cover
Arctic Exodus is the dramatic story of one of the greatest trail drives in the history of North America.
In 1929, Andrew Bahr, "The Arctic Moses," and his small band of herders started out from Alaska with three thousand reindeer, intending to cover the fifteen hundred miles to the Mackenzie Delta in eighteen months. Bahr was seventy at the time, and the reindeer were needed as domestic animals for tribes living above the Arctic Circle. While the rest of the world was reeling from the Depression, Bahr and his men would face the challenges of seventy-below temperatures, blizzards, prowling wolves, twenty-four-hour days in summer, boggy tundra, mosquitoes, and ornery reindeer. In the end, their perilous journey would take more than five years to complete - one mountain range took an entire year to cross - and Bahr ended the trip with roughly the same number of reindeer, having raised as many as he lost.
With riveting detail, Dick North brings the characters, the setting, and the spirit of the trail drive to life in this classic Arctic adventure tale. There will never be another like it.
In 1929, Andrew Bahr, "The Arctic Moses," and his small band of herders started out from Alaska with three thousand reindeer, intending to cover the fifteen hundred miles to the Mackenzie Delta in eighteen months. Bahr was seventy at the time, and the reindeer were needed as domestic animals for tribes living above the Arctic Circle. While the rest of the world was reeling from the Depression, Bahr and his men would face the challenges of seventy-below temperatures, blizzards, prowling wolves, twenty-four-hour days in summer, boggy tundra, mosquitoes, and ornery reindeer. In the end, their perilous journey would take more than five years to complete - one mountain range took an entire year to cross - and Bahr ended the trip with roughly the same number of reindeer, having raised as many as he lost.
With riveting detail, Dick North brings the characters, the setting, and the spirit of the trail drive to life in this classic Arctic adventure tale. There will never be another like it.
About the Author
Dick North has lived in the North since 1963 and is currently a historical consultant and curator of the Jack London Interpretation Center in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. He is also the author of The Mad Trapper of Rat River and The Lost Patrol.
