Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son - 9780803295902

Walter Harper, Alaska Native SonAuthor(s): Mary F. Ehrlander\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803295902, 978-0803295902\nSynopsis\n2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association\n 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award\n\nWalter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North Americas tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled am.