Nancy Warren Ferrell, '54
Alaska's Heroes: A Call to Courage. Paperback, 144 pages; Alaska Northwest Books, October 2002; ISBN: 0-8824-0542-X.
Established in 1965 by an act of the state legislature, the State of Alaska Award for Bravery-Heroism has been conferred some 30 times since then, often to individuals, sometimes to groups, once to an entire Alaskan Native village, and all too often posthumously.
In Alaska's Heroes, Ferrell tells the stories of recipients of the award, heroes who performed lifesaving acts in often life-threatening situations. Whenever possible, she conducted first-person interviews with the heroes or the survivors.
A 35-year resident of Juneau, Alaska, Ferrell has written 12 nonfiction books, three of them for children.
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