ARCHIE SATTERFIELD

Chilkoot Pass: A Hiker's Guide to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park By Archie Satterfield. Alaska Northwest Books. $14.95. This book has the longest life of all the books Satterfield has written. First published in 1973, it has been accepted as the definitive history and guide to the American portion of the Klondike park.

"Any reader would be infected by Satterfield's obvious love for the brief era, its personalities, and its madness."
--Mountain Gazette

Exploring the Yukon River iUniverse/Authors Guild backinprint. $10.95US/$19.95CDN. A continuation of the route to the Klondike the author begun with Chilkoot Pass. This describes the headwater lakes and the 500-mile journey down the great river of the North to Dawson City. As an aside, this book sells more copies than any of Satterfield's others in the iUniverse/Authors Guild program.

Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country by Archie Satterfield. Paperback. iUniverse/Authors Guild $15.95. This history of Southeast Alaska bush pilots has been in print since 1963 and is considered a classic of Alaska aviation history. It tells the stories of the first pilots who came to Southeast Alaska in the late 1920s and early 1930s to start up airlines with the flimsy planes on big, clunky floats. This is the only history written about these pilots.

Please click on the Newsletter heading above to read a story about the kissing sailor in the cover photograph.


The Home Front: An Oral History of the War Years in America by Archie Satterfield, Paperback www.iUniverse.com,$23.95. Satterfield's oral history of how people lived in the US during WWII received excellent reviews when it first appeared and has been excerpted in dozens of books and is used in college courses all over North America. For information on purchasing excerpts, please contact Dominick Abel, the agent who represents the book. Contact information is in the column on the far right.

After the Gold Rush Backinprint/iUniverse. $11.95. This is one of Satterfield's most popular books and is quoted almost as much as The Home Front because of its lyricism in the description of the Klondike, the Yukon River and the fabulous characters who live and have lived along it.

Klondike Park, iUniverse/backinprint.com. $16.95. This is a history and guide to the Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park, which begins in Seattle, goes to Skagway, Alaska, over Chilkoot and White Passes, and down the Yukon River to Dawson City, Yukon.

Home Country Writers Club. $9.95. A memoir by Satterfield about his experiences working on a wheat farm in Washington and the enduring friendship that resulted. The book was written and published as a gift for his old and dear friend, Pearl Bell. Her husband, Chet, was Satterfield's best friend for many years, until his death in 1980. Pearl died on December 7, 2004.

The Lewis and Clark Trail. Harrisburg: Stackpole. 1978; Authors Guild/iUniverse, 2002. $14.95US.A history of the expedition with a guide to the route today.

"The book is a major factor in our 75th anniversary celebration."
-- Wesley Eckert, President and CEO, Darigold.


Satterfield has written several commissioned histories and a family history. Among his clients are the dairy cooperatives Darigold and Tillamook Cheese, Alaska Airlines, the City of Edmonds, Washington, Crescent Foods of Seattle and the Chick family of Mercer Island, Washington. He recently completed a history of Trillium Corporation, the real-estate and timber development company in Bellingham, Washington. For more information, please click on the "Commissioned histories" tab.

“Archie has captured the essence of Tillamook as well as anyone could. I have lived here all my life and reading the book brings back memories I had forgotten.” -- Harold Schild, Former General Manager, Tillamook Cheese

"Bush pilots fly blind and/or blind drunk through horrendous weather! Managers salvage airplanes from scrap heaps, dodge creditors, and keep 'em flying! Satterfield balances the heroics with a self-effacing tone that takes delight in exposing raunchy shenanigans of yesteryear. . ." -- From a review of The Alaska Airlines Story. Courtesy “The Body Sings” by Doug Nufer. Electronicbookreview.com

"When I decided to return to the US after living in France for six years the part I dreaded most was the flight home. Getting there or anywhere else by air is no longer part of the fun. Since I was immigrating (re-immigrating?) it seemed a good idea to arrive in the New World aboard a ship, the way my ancestors did more than 200 years earlier. Although they arrived in steerage, I felt I had sufficient steerage experience from flying on commercial airlines. Being touched all over by uniformed people while dogs sniff and drool all over my luggage, then wedged into child-sized airplane seats amid a sea of coughing strangers for hour upon endless hour is all the steerage experience I need."--Porthole Magazine

"What did you read for breakfast this morning?
"As millions of Americans have every morning for most of this century, you probably read the back of your cereal box, the most widely read medium of communication in the nation. If you are an adult, for at least a fleeting moment you remembered your childhood when you ordered a secret code ring or a balsa-wood airplane or a military insignia by sending a boxtop and a dime to Battle Creek or Minneapolis or Des Moines or St. Louis. You ordered the toys (known as premiums in the trade) secure in the knowledge that you wouldn't go down to the five-and-dime and see those same toys for sale."
-- The Elks Magazine

--Robb Report

"The heart of Missouri winemaking is called the Rhineland, a touch of the Old World strung out along the last 100 miles of the Missouri River before it joins the Mississippi near St. Louis. Oak and walnut timber covers the low hills and row crops join with grapes to march across the rich bottomlands toward the river. Sturdy towns made of limestone and brick perch on the high bluffs along the southern bank of the river, most with the church steeple jutting above the treetops. Some of the oldest wineries in North America were established here. Since most were built of the inevitable stone or brick, they still stand."
-- History Channel magazine

Sunterra Magazine

"This end-of-the-continent place has always attracted people with different ideas on how to live the good life and to be among them for a while is a refreshing change from what the rest of us accept as normal. Many of Key West’s first residents were social misfits, and today that proud tradition continues. Mixed in with these characters were famous politicians such as Harry S Truman, who wasn’t afraid to be seen with eccentric beach bums."
--Sunterra Magazine