Review of Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader By William R. Hunt

• Main Author: Sharp, Paul F.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1995
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Northwest Territories; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1068; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2067/viewcontent/Sharp_GPQ_1995_Whiskey.pdf

This biography successfully traces the career of an Irish immigrant whose colorful life defines the realities of pioneering while at the same time providing the stuff of Western dime novels, movies, campfire storytelling, and adventure yarns. His remarkable range of experiences as frontier soldier, whiskey trader to Canadian Indians, and finally as a major player on the Alaskan frontier gives the author an opportunity to write a fast moving history of Montana, the Northwest Territories of Can ada, and Alaska.