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The Great Death
The Great Death arrived with the man from downriver, the one who came with the light-colored strangers and had little red spots covering his body. Thirteen-year-old Millie and her younger sister, Maura, are fascinated by the guests, but soon sickness takes over their village. As they watch the people they know and love die, the sisters remain unaffected and begin to realize that they will have to find a new home. Alone in the cold Alaskan winter of 1917, struggling to overcome the obstacles nature throws their way, the girls discover that their true strength lies in their love for each other. John Smelcer's spare and beautiful prose shapes the sisters' story with tenderness and skill, presenting a powerful tale of determination, survival, and family.
Edge of Nowhere
A castaway teen struggling to return home through the wilderness comes to terms with his father's loneliness and love.
In the Shadows of Mountains
Two dozen myths as retold by Ahtna Indian elders.
The Trap
A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-lined hood of his parka over his head and walked towards his own cabin with the sound of snow crunching beneath his boots. "He should be back tomorrow," he thought, as a star raced across the sky just below the North Star. "He should be back tomorrow for sure." Seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel knows that his grandfather Albert is a stubborn old man and won't stop checking his own traplines even though other men his age stopped doing so years ago. But Albert Least-Weasel has been running traplines in the Alaskan wilderness alone for the past sixty years. Nothing has ever gone wrong on the trail he knows so well. When Albert doesn't come back from checking his traps, with the temperature steadily plummeting, Johnny must decide quickly whether to trust his grandfather or his own instincts. Written in alternating chapters that relate the parallel stories of Johnny and his grandfather, John Smelcer's The Trap poignantly addresses the hardships of life in the far north, suggesting that the most dangerous traps need not be made of steel.
Savage Mountain
Teen brothers James and Sebastian, always at odds, learn the true meaning of brotherhood when they climb Alaska's Mount Sanford.
The Ultimate Survival Guide
"This book will teach you everything you need to know to survive in the wilderness - whether it's the Arctic, the desert, the jungle or your own back garden!" - cover.
Durable Breath
Contemporary Native American poetry.
Stealing Indians
Four Indian teenagers, their identities and cultures erased, develop a special friendship that alone allows them to survive forced institutionalization.
Lone Wolves
A half-Indian with an outcast wolf as lead dog, Deneena attempts the Great Race to prove herself and her heritage.
Without Reservation
John Smelcer is a very considerable American poet, an astute observer of our contemporary scene. -- X. J. Kennedy -- These poems clear, rueful, courageous, sardonic, hard-lived, and backed up with a big heart and life-knowledge. -- Gary Snyder -- This is poetry as it should be, without a wasted word, with unparalleled attention to sound and rhythm. -- W. P. Kinsella
