Heart of Windows to the Land is built on the foundations of Ferguson’s Windows to the Land, Vols. I and II, now out of print. Heart begins with the voice of statewide indigenous leaders whose collective fire in the belly resulted in passage of Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). That fire for the land is again felt in their voice as foreign opportunists rush in to extract our precious metals and truck them out over Alaska’s fragile highways to points unknown. In the last section, early Athabascan Iditarod champions candidly share the beginnings of the Great Race before the trails were groomed and before villages were constrained from housing and feeding mushers, a time in the village, where it all first began.

Retail Price
(shipping added at checkout)
$29.95

Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof is a story of classic Alaska, in the village where the Iditarod began. It features the courageous mushers who broke trail when the Great Race was only a rough trapline experience. At the Iditarod’s inception in 1973, Ken Chase and George Attla were finishers, followed in 1974 by Jerry Riley, Rudy Demoski, and Warner Vent. The following year Henry Beatus and Emmitt Peters came on, the year Emmitt won, and changed the race from campfire camaraderie to a truly competitive contest.

Retail Price
$19.95

Travels With Grampa, the epic story of the indigenous people of Alaska in 1898. T.A.H.I.T.A.* travels with his Grandpa and his little fox from the Aleutians to the arctic, giving and receiving gifts. A beautiful portrayal of the Great Land and its people. Stellar artwork of all our indigenous cultures and the Great Land. *(Tlingit, Aleut, Haida, Inuit/Eskimo,Tsimshian and Athabascan)

Retail Price
$18.00

Winter subsistence in the traditional trapping life style of the First Traditional Chief David Salmon, the nonfiction story that presents Alaska’s fur animals and David’s ermine buddy. A story of great overcoming during times of epidemic, David went on to become the first Athabascan priest and chief of the Interior. ALC includes a letter to the children signed by him. Maps, glossary.

Retail Price
$18.00

Alaska’s Secret Door (ASD) presents summer subsistence and the salmon-based fishwheels and summer family camps. ASD features Emmitt Peters, winner and record-setter of the 1975 Iditarod and his lead dog Nugget. Discover the Yukon River as the Ferguson family follows Clint Ferguson’s handmade, birch-bark canoe to the sea! Wind, sand and salmon!

Retail Price
$18.00

Windows features the untold story of the Alaska Native land claims forerunners across the state whose fire in the belly birthed Native land claims, the divide between traditional and modern Alaska. Includes index, maps on every chapter and photos on every page.

Features Iditarod, Iron Dog, Yukon 800, and World Eskimo-Indian Olympics champions including George Attla and Reggie Joule, as well as Alaska Native subsistence advocate Katie John. With maps, timelines, and photos on every page, Windows presents the face of Alaska sled dog racing and Iñupiaq games of strength where it began: in the village. This is classic Alaska, “that kind you won’t see no more,” said Oscar Albert of Northway.

Celebrating Alaska's 50-year statehood anniversary, Bridges to Statehood features the last territorial governor Mike Stepovich Over the Chilkoot Trail's icy steps, these sons of Viches came: Stepovich, Butrovich, Dapcevich, Begich, Paskvan, and Peratrovich: to guide Alaska from a raw land to statehood, from southeast to the arctic, from gold camps to the forty-ninth star! Names so Alaskan that their Slavic stories went untold, they represented the world's former empires and today's Balkan states and shaped all of Alaska. 404 pages with maps, timeline, and historic photos on every page.

Blue Hills, Alaska's Promised Land portrays through a strong woman and her family, a window into old Alaska and the characters that made Alaska a living legend. Hunting, trapping, gardening, fishing, canoeing, riverboating, the Fergusons raised a family on a remote homesite.

Today, Alaska is losing both its pioneer elders and the rugged, untamed life that originally defined its mystique. For fifty-six years, Reb and Judy Ferguson have lived Alaska's wilderness life from yesterday's trappers to today's crossroads into tomorrow.

Parallel Destinies is the North's history in a microcosm. Rika's Roadhouse, a lodge built at Big Delta in 1914, was the hub of civilization between Fairbanks and the Canadian border between 1904 and 1942. John Hajdukovich, a Montenegrin, and the builder of Rika's, was the law, a trader and the life support system to the Natives of the Upper Tanana River. Hajdukovich was the force behind the Tetlin Reserve and was also at that time the Interior's most competent big game guide. Sparking the Interior's infrastructure and numerous enterprises, Hajdukovich was a father of today's Tanana River Valley economy.