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ix Acknowledgments Thanks to the many fellow fishermen I had the pleasure of working with and learning from in my years on Cook Inlet. First among them are my former partner, Dick Gunlogson, my two deck hands, John Chalmers and Mike Chalmers, and the several friends to whom my narrative refers by their first names only—true sea-brothers, I feel. I am equally grateful to a number of fellow voyagers into the world of books—Roger Murray, Glen Love, Ron Carlson, Haskell Springer, Lee Werth, Robert Cockcroft, Robert Foulke, and Elizabeth Schultz. Thanks also to the late Lee Makovich and his son, Nick Makovich, for their help in tracking down Anna A; to Andrew Wellner for his helpful research in the files of the Kodiak Daily Mirror; to Bill Sullivan for his help in verifying names and other data pertaining to the chapter, “The Cannery”; to Barbara Sweetland Smith for helping to sharpen my sense of the early Russian presence in Cook Inlet; to Mark Willette, research biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, for his thoughts on the future of Cook Inlet sockeye; and to Philip Tennant and Jim Reid of Doublemono Limited, for permission to use the lines quoted here from The Waterboys’ song “Fisherman’s Blues.” Further thanks to my three former colleagues at Arizona State University, Professors Lidia Haberman, Pier Baldini, and Timothy Wong, for their help with foreign languages; to my nephew and one-time deck hand, Ted Bender, for the charts printed here; to the Alaska Fisherman’s Journal, where my chapter “Sign of Wind” first appeared; and to Mary Braun, Jo Alexander, and Tom Booth of Oregon State University Press for helping bring my project to light. Finally, two people deserve more thanks than I can convey in words: Tony Angell, friend of over fifty years and collaborator on my three previous books, for the memorable drawings that grace this volume; and especially Judith Darknall, my wife and untiring companion in our lives’ adventure, for her brilliant editorial suggestions and support in this and earlier projects. ...