Alice Vollmar (18 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Otis Hahn was born in Black Duck, Minnesota, in 1927, attended school in Mizpah, Minnesota for eight years, and grew up in the timber country of northern Minnesota among the rivers and lakes. Severely dyslexic, Hahn found the wilderness around him a more effective teacher than books, and he spent his youth hunting, fishing, and trapping. In 1950, Hahn spent the first of many summers in Alaska, where he met his wife, Audrey. During the early fifties, he worked seasonally in a Livengood gold mine and for the Alaska Road Commission. The couple returned to farming for the next twenty-five years in Minnesota, where they raised two sons and two daughters. Today they have six grandchildren. Hahn always dreamed of going back to Alaska and looking for gold, and he finally did so in 1981. It was an adventure I'll never forget," he says. "I've got a story to tell about mining gold in Alaska, Otis Hahn gold writer Alice Vollmar a few years ago. If you're interested, let's get together and talk about it. Their meeting led to a collaboration between Hahn and Vollmar to write Pay Dirt.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by author, Otis Hahn, on first page. Light edge wear and rubbing, interior is clean. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Name written on inside cover. Signed by Author(s).

[ALASKA] [GOLD MINING]. First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial, stiff wrappers, 158 [2] pp., author's note, illustrated, map, epilogue, about the authors. Memoirs of mining for gold at Bear Creek, Alaska. "This book details Otis Hahn's experience of following his dreams to mine for gold in the interior of Alaska. Hahn and his wife Audrey travel to bush Alaska, where he purchases the Bear Creek mine located about 100 miles north of McGrath. At Bear Creek they not only face the challenges of the back country, but also face the back breaking work of operating a mine in a remote area. They face encounters with bears, transportation and equipment problems, the wicked Alaskan winter, and uncertainties about the existence of gold in this mine." Fine copy.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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