02228cam a2200337 4500 283113178 TxAuBib 20140214120000.0 140214s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99-21748 9780312205294 $25.00 0312205295 $25.00 TxAuBib Durr, R. A. (Robert Allen). Down in Bristol Bay : High Tides, Hangovers, And Harrowing Experience on Alaska's Last Frontier / Bob Durr. 1st ed. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1999. 219 p : hardbound ; 22 cm. "Thomas Dunne books.". Prologue: The Ballad of Bristol Bay -- 1. Getting There: Phase 1 -- 2. Getting There: Phase 2 -- 3. Our First Season Fishing -- 4. Our First Big Run, '65 -- 5. The Day the Boat Went Down and Only One Survived -- 6. High Boat -- 7. Two Days of the Love-in Girl -- 8. Fiasco, or What Became of Port N Storm -- 9. A Night on the Outside -- 10. Threading the Needle -- 11. Party. Dr. Robert Allen Durr, literary scholar and award-winning author, one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, was the youngest person to be named full professor at Syracuse University. Then he gave it all up and went searching for paradise. He found it in Alaska. He became the friend and partner of a wild man named Gene Pope, in whom he saw "alive and in person, the real thing: the authentic frontiersman." Down in Bristol Bay catapults the reader into this last frontier and onto a sea of storms and dangers, madcap bars and drinking parties, amid the camaraderie of some rugged Alaskans, mostly native fishermen known as D Inn Crowd. 20140214. Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Bristol Bay Region. Fishermen Alaska Bristol Bay Region Biography. Alaska. Bristol Bay. Alaska Stories. Naknek, Alaska. Bristol Bay Region (Alaska) Social life and customs. Bristol Bay Region (Alaska) Biography.