On the Edge of Nowhere

by James Huntington, Lawrence Elliott

Overview

His father is a white trapper, his mother an Athabascan Indian who walks a thousand miles in winter to reunite with her family. Thus, Jimmy Huntington learns early how to survive on the land. Huntington is only seven when his mother dies, and he must care for his younger siblings. A courageous and inspiring man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too numerous to mention, and becomes a championship sled-dog racer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148326410
Publisher:	Epicenter Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	190
Sales rank:	204,376
File size:	377 KB

About the Author

"Jimmy Huntington’s philosophy of life was, “Where there’s life , there’s hope.” It stood the Alaskan in good stead when he fell through the ice on a subzero day and had only five minutes to get a fire going with numb fingers and wet wood.
Huntington came from hardy stock. His father was a miner and trapper, and his Athabascan Indian mother walked from Nome to the Hogatza River, over a thousand miles, in the dead of an Alaskan winter because she was “sick to see her children.”
Jimmy, his older brother Sidney 7, and younger sister Marion 2 inherited that hardiness. While his father was away on a 600 mille trip down the Yukon, Jimmy’s mother died. This left the three alone in the wilderness. Surviving alone for thirteen days, they were rescued by the sailors of the riverboat Teddy H. and taken to their father. Jimmy, Sidney, and Marion became famous across Alaska. for that ordeal.
Jimmy, the Huslia Hustler, became a famous dog musher. He won the Alaska Championship in Anchorage and the North American Dogsled Derby in Fairbanks. He was the third man ever to win both and at 40, the oldest man ever to win the All-Alaska Championship.
Jimmy’s style was straight forward and honest. For years, he served on the Alaska Fisheries Board, responsible for management and conservation of fisheries resources. He represented the Alaskan Natives and little guys against the big city and Lower Forty-eight interests.
November, 1974, he ran for election to the Alaska legislature and won as a write-in candidate. There he continued representing Alaska Natives and the little guys.
True to his philosophy, he told his children,”I’ll be back,” on the night of February 27, 1987, while he was being evacuated to a Fairbanks hospital due to heart trouble. Although there was hope, he didn’t live. He died during the flight leaving a uniquely Alaskan legacy.
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