In a memoir that overflows with humor, excitement, and a sense of "being there" for major events, reporter Stanton H. Patty reflects on a fifty-year career covering heroic, larger-than-life characters and the roles they played in the history of Alaska and the Yukon. Patty recounts the struggles of Alaska's Native peoples to win their rightful land claims, goes whaling with Eskimo friends, and flies with daring bush pilots--his boyhood friends. He salutes women of the north country --"unstoppable" he calls them. He documents the Good Friday Earthquake. He meets the one and only Klondike Kate, Charles A. Lindbergh, and other notables.