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Ted Lambert : the man behind the paintings / by Ted Lambert ; edited by Lew Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lambert, Ted (Theodore Roosevelt), 1905-approximately 1960.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lambert, Ted (Theodore Roosevelt), 1905-approximately 1960.
- Lambert, Ted.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Alaska--Biography.
- Alaska.
- Alaska--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fairbanks [Alaska] : University of Alaska Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a copper mine and mushing dogs-first for adventure, and then as a mail carrier. Lambert left Alaska in 1931 to study art for a year at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then moved to Seattle, where he began a mentorship under Eustace Ziegler, with whom he traveled throughout Alaska and painted. Eventually Lambert settled down in Fairbanks,
- Contents:
- Introduction. Beginnings
- Welcome to Cordova
- Hiking the Iron Trail
- Recuperation
- The mine
- Low man on the totem pole
- Bud is back
- The country
- The road house
- Forest fire
- Mining something else
- Prohibition and no inhibition
- Finishing the season
- Off season
- Dog teaming : origin of a mistake
- Adopt-a-team
- The dogs teach us to mush
- Beefing up the kennel
- The education continues
- New equipment
- Early winter
- Kennecott
- Learning Alaska history
- Outfitting
- The trail
- Taming live glaciers
- Near death on Skolai Pass
- Strategic withdrawal
- Return to Skolai
- Boyden's saga
- Over the pass
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60223-166-4
- OCLC:
- 892483599
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