Reddit reviews Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story

Wager with the Wind was a book I selected in school for a report and it was seriously awesome.

It's basically an early history of bush flying in Alaska with a lot of anecdotes. My parents knew or were friends-of-friends with some of the characters in the book so it was even more cool having met some of them.

There is another cool book about Army paratroopers in Alaska. Up here they perform civilian rescues so the book was a recollection of SAR adventures. I can't remember the title but I bought it in a Borders about 10 years ago.

Then of course there are the Alaskan Bear Tales books. I've never read them, but everyone I know who has started carrying guns when they let their dog out in the backyard.

Oh and another book I remember reading was called Jumping Fire about a smokejumper in Alaska.

Wager With the Wind, By James Greiner. This is the story of the bush pilot Don Sheldon.

Flight of Passage, By Rinker Buck. This is a good non-fiction about two brothers who fly a J-3 from coast to coast in the 60's.