title: Hunts and Home Fires: Surviving Fifty Years of Alaska and Other Interesting Things
author:  Dennis Lattery 
description: Dennis Lattery was born in the wrong century. Best suited for the days of hunting, cutting wood, hauling water, handshakes, and of men good enough for their own word. He is most comfortable in a hunting camp during the Alaska autumn, surrounded by colorful snow dusted mountains, the scent of wood smoke, and the sharp, distinctive, smell of ripe wild high bush cranberries. At age 8, Dennis moved to Alaska from Canada with his family in 1949. He will always consider Skagway, where he attended junior high and high school, his hometown. He received a B.Ed from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 1967. His first published article appeared in Bowhunter magazine in 1972 and publishing articles in state and national magazines continued into the twenty-first century. Dennis and his wife and lifetime partner, Sharon, divide their time between their home in Chugiak, Alaska, a remote cabin on Raspberry Island, in the Kodiak area, and their snow-bird home at Ajo, Arizona. Their daughter, Denise, lives nearby in Anchorage.
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  WILD
   
  Adrienne Wilder
  
   
  For Donald Qualls and his assistance with
  details on the Mozin-Nagant, .30-06, shooting,
  cleaning, reloading, and info on airplanes and helicopters.
  And of course, being an all-around great
  guy and supportive partner in crime.
  Thank you, and I love you.
   
  Thank you, Jack, for being a scrutinizing beta reader with
  excellent input. I owe you some whisky and stolen
  jewelry.
   
  A special thank you to Pat Ann Alaskan Smalley
  for putting up with my shit when learning
  about just how special Alaska and the people
  who live there really are.
   
   
  And for every Alaskan out there, native
  or transplant living in the bush,
  I have one word for your
  incredible constitution and ingenuity,
  Wow!
   
  To everyone else, thank you for reading.
   
  Last but not least, running water, plumbing, hot water, electricity,
  grocery stores, temperatures above 70 degrees on a regular basis and of
  course the SUN,
  I love you and I will never, ever, ever, EVER get tired of you.
   
  
   
  
   
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