The creation legend / Tlingit legend -- How raven brought light / Eskimo legend -- Legend of the aurora borealis / Eskimo legend -- How mosquitoes came to be / Tlingit legend -- "People of the North" from Alaska / James A. Michener -- from Summer light / Elyse Guttenberg -- Tundra song / Tim McNulty -- from Mother earth, father sky / Sue Harrison -- "The old man's winter" from The last light breaking / Nick Jans -- The circle of totems / Peggy Shumaker -- The sea gull / Eskimo legend -- "The tragedy of Anna Petrovna" from Russian America / Hector Chevigny -- from Ashana / E.P. Roesch -- from Sitka / Louis L'Amour -- "The killing" from The spoilers ; "A new crisis" from The iron trail / Rex Beach -- Do you fear the wind? / Hamlin Garland -- from Two in the far north / Margaret E. Murie -- "Uncle Charley" from My way was north / Frank Dufresne -- from Tisha / Robert Specht -- Only come to visit / Tom Linklater -- Looking back I remember / Joanne Townsend -- Radovin / Tim McNulty -- The little old lady who lived alone / Athabascan legend -- "Eggs" from Once upon an Eskimo time / Edna Wilder -- "July 13th" from Libby / Betty John -- from Fifty years below zero / Charles D. Brower -- Alaska / Joaquin Miller -- "Fairbanks to the Chandalar through Circle City and Fort Yukon" from Ten thousand miles with a dog sled / Hudson Stuck -- At the foot of Denali / Tim McNulty -- Dogmusher / Ruben Gaines -- "The Sourdough Expedition, 1910" from To the top of Denali / Bill Sherwonit -- "No man's land" from Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden -- "Alaska" from In the shadow of eagles / Rudy Billberg/Jim Rearden -- from A river ran out a Eden / James Vance Marshall -- The tundra ; The way we live / John Haines -- from Daughter of the gold rush / Klondy Nelson -- "The birth of a cabin" from One man's wilderness / Richard Proenneke/Sam Keith -- Change / Charles J. Keim -- Volcano / Nancy Lord -- Tales of the North / Sheila Nickerson -- Whalescape ; Berrying / Ann Fox Chandonnet -- "Lost" from The stars, the snow, the fire / John Haines -- from Slade's glacier / Robert F. Jones -- Chenega / Tom Sexton -- Exit glacier / Peggy Shumaker -- from Murder on the Iditarod Trail / Sue Henry -- Willow was her name / Dixie Alexander -- Nomadic Inupiat, for Kappaisruk / Sister Goodwin -- "Southeastern Alaska" from Alaska blues / Joe Upton -- from Working on the edge / Spike Walker -- "Flying for 1002" from Navigations / Ted Kerasote -- The mammoth hunters / Eskimo legend -- "Aghvook comes" from Island between / Margaret E. Murie -- "Spearing grizzly bears" from Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden -- A moose calling ; "Of traps and snares" from The stars, the snow, the fire / John Haines -- "Bear, and more bear" from The Cheechakoes / Wayne Short -- The moose kill / Margaret G. Mielke -- "The battle of the giants" from Look to the wilderness / W. Douglas Burden -- "Moon of the returning sun" from Shadow of the hunter / Richard K. Nelson -- The ten-footed polar bear / Eskimo legend -- "Moose: season of the painted leaves" from Shadows of the tundra / Tom Walker -- "Tornarssuk (Ursus maritimus)" from Arctic dreams / Barry Lopez -- "Dall" from Cowboys are my weakness / Pam Houston -- "Sheefish time" from The last light breaking / Nick Jans -- Two with spears / Carolyn Kremers -- "Beautiful meat" from A place beyond / Nick Jans -- The wolfmen and the hunter / Eskimo legend -- "Let us die trying" from Two old women / Velma Wallis -- Lost face ; To build a fire / Jack London -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service -- "Nimrod" from Home country / Ernie Pyle -- "The flood" from Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington/Jim Rearden -- Brother wolverine / Mary Tallmountain -- "The village is taken" from The wind is not a river / Arnold A. Griese -- "Devils Canyon" from Wager with the wind / James Greiner -- "March 1: -148(degrees)" from Minus 148(degrees) / Art Davidson -- "Possessing the land" from Road song / Natalie Kusz -- The man and the loon / Athabascan legend -- The prince and the salmon people / Tlingit legend -- The man who became a caribou / Eskimo legend -- The white seal / Rudyard Kipling -- Strikeen / John Muir -- Jack London / William Stafford -- "The gray cub" from White Fang / Jack London -- "The dark song" from Icebound summer / Sally Carrighar -- from Gentle Ben / Walt Morey -- The field of the caribou ; Wolves / John Haines -- Wolves, for John Haines / Tom Sexton -- from The red snow / James Greiner -- "Woodsman" from Make prayers to the raven / Richard K. Nelson -- Lives of animals ; Winter / Linda Schandelmeier -- At the Tetlin River / Carolyn Kremers -- "Grizzly habitat" from No room for bears / Frank Dufresne -- "The changing times" from Kahtahah / Frances Lackey Paul -- from Ice palace / Edna Ferber -- Where the people are / Ruben Gaines -- Ballet in Bethel / Fred Bigjim -- from The war canoe / Jamie S. Bryson -- "The scene and the people" from Out of the North / Ronald Johnson -- "Shattered dreams" from Johnny's girl / Kim Rich -- Winter ferry: Haines to Juneau / Richard Dauenhauer -- from The woman who married a bear / John Straley -- Anchorage / Tom Sexton -- Progress / Karen Randlev -- Burying the tongue bone / Seth Kantner -- Salmon egg puller--$2.15 an hour / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- "The men and the work and the Northern mystique" from Inside the Alaska Pipeline / Ed McGrath -- "The man all covered with mouths" from Stalking the Ice Dragon: an Alaskan journey / Susan Zwinger -- "The native villages" from In the wake of the Exxon Valdez / Art Davidson -- "Skin" from In extremis and other Alaskan stories / Jean Anderson -- Alex Marks, Tlingit carver / Richard Speakes -- from A cold-blooded business / Dana Stabenow -- "Perspectives" from Edges of the earth / Richard Leo -- Grandma and the Eskimos / Richard Allen Blessing -- "Beat the Qaaviks" from The last light breaking / Nick Jans