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Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy : from American slave to Arctic hero
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- Creator
- Dennis L. Noble and Truman R. Strobridge ; foreword by Gene Allen Smith and James C. Bradford
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xx, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813033686, 0813033683
- OCLC
- ocn312445296
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Georgia plantation -- Down to the sea -- Love and the sailor -- Eastern interlude -- Healy's polar passion -- Cannons, expeditions, shipwrecks, and reindeer -- The captain and the immortal Bear -- "Monster Healy" -- The czar of the North -- "I steer by no man's compass but my own" -- "A desperate and dangerous man" -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Important dates in the life of Capt. Michael A. Healy -- Appendix 2: The family of Michael Augustine Healy -- Appendix 3: Charges brought against Capt. Michael A. Healy in 1896 trial
Subjects
- Healy, Michael A., 1839-1904.
- United States. Revenue-Cutter Service -- Officers -- Biography.
- Ship captains -- Alaska -- Biography.
- African American sailors -- Alaska -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Biography.
- Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Biography.
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.
- Alaska -- Gold discoveries.
- Alaska -- History -- 19th century.