1965 "First Edition" stated; signed by Al Moltke inside front (pic); hardbound; illustrated with b/w photos; very good condition of book; small, light smudge on front (pic); no dust jacket.
 
from Preface -
Join the author as he tells about -
 
The territory of Alaska in 1917 as seen from a salmon cannery located on Herendeen Bay off Bering Sea.
 
World War I as experienced by a farm boy of the northwestern United States - joining too late to be taken into the cavalry, just gone out of style, and almost too early for motorized equipment.
 
Replacement of logging teams by motorized equipment in the tall timber country of Oregon and Washington.
 
The development of the Columbia River beginning with the construction of the Bonneville Dam.