| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4 | The History Cooperative

Wesley Earl Dunkle: Alaska's Flying Miner. By Charles Caldwell Hawley. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. xxi + 274 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
Charles Hawley has written a unique biography—one of a geologist and mining engineer. While Wesley Earl Dunkle left an extensive body of papers, Hawley acknowledges assistance from around the world in collecting material relevant to the Dunkle story. Nearly as impressive is the fact that Hawley is an economic geologist, not a trained historian. Nonetheless, he skillfully pieces together the life story of a remarkable man who, from 1910 until his death in 1957, explored much of Alaska on foot and by early airplanes.	1
Shortly after graduating from Yale in 1912, "Earl" Dunkle worked for the Kennecott Copper Corporation in Alaska. Here he probably made his greatest contribution—determining the origin of the copper and predicting the extension of the ore to other mines. Hawley's expertise allows him to assess Dunkle's mining efforts and evaluate his overall significance.	. . .

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