Francis E Caldwell
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Description
A native of Georgia, Herb Crisler was sent to the Olympic Peninsula by the United States Army in 1918. Captivated by the Peninsula, Herb decided to stay. By 1930 he had become a legend because of mountaineering and motion-picture achievements. His movies of the Olympic back country and its wildlife greatly influenced public support for the creation of Olympic National Park in 1938. He and his wife, Lois, spent two decades filming wilderness few people...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
198 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Description
This true story is about author Francis Caldwell's experiences learning to fish for salmon with sport gear in Alaska, and his decade-long struggle to become a comercial fisherman. Despite many disappointments, a near-death experience with hypothermia, close encounters with giant Alaskan brown bears and a decade of hard work, he reached his goal, earning anough mony to buy a large salmon troller.