Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

An Eclectic Collection to Honor Alaska’s Public Historian

Frank Soos, Mary Ehrlander, Frank Soos, Mary Ehrlander

• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781602233812
• Print ISBN:
  9781602233805

This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflections on Cole's contributions in teaching, research, and service, to topics he encouraged his students to pursue, plus pieces he inspired directly or indirectly. It is an eclectic collection that spans the humanities and social sciences, each capturing aspects of the human experience in Alaska's vast and variable landscape. Together the essays offer readers complementary perspectives that will delight Cole's many fans—and gain him new ones.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• I Got Off the Bus
• Terrence Cole as Researcher and Writer
• The Inimitable Professor Terrence Cole
• I Have Known Terrence Cole
• Arctic Terror: The Polar Bear in American Visual Culture
• “Dogs Is Dogs”: Savagery and Civilization in the Gold Rush Era
• Don’t You Know this Place Will Kill You? Jack London and Jon Krakauer on Death in the Alaska Wild
• Joseph Hazelwood and the One Thousand Dozen
• Sydney Laurence, Belle Simpson, and The Nugget Shop
• Too Good to Be True: Alaska’s 1867 Transfer Flag and the Problem of Unreliable Sources
• “No Dogs or Natives Allowed”: Myth, Memory, and the History of a Sign that Did Not Exist
• Contigency and Alaska History: How Congress’s 1871 Cessation of Treaty-Making Helped Create ANCSA a Hundred Years Later
• Boom, Bust, and Build: An Economic Lesson from Alaska History
• Between Two Empires: Canada and The Alaska Boundary Dispute
• The Hunter and the Copper-Eyed Bug from Mars: Food Moralists, Meet Alaska
• Site Summit: Preserving a Cold War Legacy Property
• The <NN> Cannery History Project: Documenting Cannery Work, People, and Place
• Roads Versus Runways: Transportation Development in Territorial Alaska
• The Mysterious Process of Historical Research: A Curious Story of How Heath Twitchell Found Henry Allen
• Index