Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier    by Jack de Yonge
Price: $9.99 USD. 65530 words. Published by Epicenter Press  on April 7, 2012. .
A newspaper reporter recalls his youth in Fairbanks, Alaska, a dying gold-rush town that comes alive again with a wild mix of Russian and American pilots, a busy red-light district, and a round-the-clock bar scene in the 1940s war years.