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The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books

The excerpt is from a 1957 book by Charles Madsen and John Scott Douglas called Arctic Trader used in Powers' research for Tales of the Seven Seas.

This item is a photocopied version of an entire book entitled "A Captain Unafraid: The Strange Adventures of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien" by Horace Smith.

This item is a photocopied version of the entire book, The Sea Saga of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: American Master Mariner for Fifty-Three Years; A Seaman for Sixty-Five Years; Whose Shipmates and Friends called him the 'Nestor of the Pacific'; Who Feared God by Defied His Storms; Who Fought the Good Fight; Whose Firsts were as Hard as his Spirit was Stout by Milton A. Dalby (1933).

This item is a photocopy of an entire book entitled Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: Alaska's Sea Captain by Edward A. Herron published in 1962.

This item is a photocopy of an entire book entitled Jack London and the Klondike: The Genesis of an American Writer by Franklin Walker (2005).

This item is a photocopied version of the entire book, The Sea Saga of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: American Master Mariner for Fifty-Three Years; A Seaman for Sixty-Five Years; Whose Shipmates and Friends called him the 'Nestor of the Pacific'; Who Feared God by Defied His Storms; Who Fought the Good Fight; Whose Firsts were as Hard as his Spirit was Stout by Milton A. Dalby (1933).

The series contains materials related to Dennis Powers' historical research and the writing of the book “Tales of the Seven Seas: The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien." The materials include papers concerning the publication and the promotion for the book.