Idaho Book Signings

Book Signings

Join us for a super signing of 5 great historical adventure novels of Alaskan Wildlife at their best

April 16

Hastings in Meridian

April 30

Hastings

Fairview Ave. in Boise

May 7

Hastings

Overland Rd Boise

May 14

Hastings 

Twin Falls

March 5th

Walmart
Location:  10 Ten & McMillan in Meridian, ID
Time: 11am to 4pm

"If you like a good adventure story, Curt's the author to read!"
Kathy Czosnek Gaudry

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At the beginning of the 20th century, Alaska had gained the reputation of being the graveyard of the Pacific because so many shipwrecks occurred on her shores. The problem resulted from the pinnacle rocks that were submerged only a few feet below the ocean surface. Many ships met their fate as the hulls were ripped open by the invisible rock formations that were built up from the deep. Ninety percent of all Alaskan coastlines in 1900 were not surveyed, and marker buoys and lighthouses were eventually installed to keep ships from running aground.

Logging contracts were constant but with dire consequences, as men were killed and maimed eking out a living. Well stated by a logger in Juneau, “I’ve never worked so hard, for so long, in such a cold and dangerous place, as these Alaskan woods.”

Canneries and fishing villages were being built to accommodate the demand of the lower 48 for Alaskan salmon, and fishing areas were protected to the point of eliminating trespassers from their claimed areas.

Also during this time in Alaskan history, poaching and mass destruction of wild game was rampant. Many countries were coming into the Alaskan Territory to get animal body part, skins for leather, and food stores. No enforceable laws were prevalent at that time which consequently created uncontrolled harvesting of Alaskan wild game

Gold was being mined in numerous locations with boom towns sprouting up overnight with little or no law to control the robust miner and his misbehavior.

Furs of all kinds were being taken from the coastal water as well as the interior to satisfy the world’s desire for fur clothing, especially in Europe. The fur takers were greedy, and would let no laws stop them from gathering the furs that were worth great sums of money on the world market.

To these extents, I dedicate this historical novel to the men and women that experienced extreme hardships to exist and flourish in such a wild and wonderful country. Curt Carney

Follow James Kincaid, Alaskan wildlife biologist, and Moaka through adventurous historical novels at their best.

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What readers have to say about the Kincaid novels:

Kincaid and the Furious White - "Great adventure, realistic action, and good characters." Joe Campeau

Kincaid and the Legal Massacre - "When I bought my daughter the book she decided to become a wildlife biologist." - Anonymous per readers request

Kincaid and the Killing Meadow - "Fast moving adventure, good plot." Frank Townsend

Kincaid and the Furious White
Action and adventure in the frozen north---can Kincaid stop the deadly rogue polar bear?
In 1899, James Kincaid travels to the North Slopes of Alaska to discover and explore the newly purchased unknown land.  With the help of his Native guide, Moaka, James builds and trains his own dog team which becomes one of the best sled dog teams in the territory.  He is charged by the Wildlife Service to document the wildlife populations, interact with the natives and their culture, develop maps of the land, and discover potential resources of this new frontier east of Barrow.  As James and Moaka explore and discover their assigned territory, they are confronted by a huge rogue polar bear that has been raiding villages, and has to be destroyed or chased back onto the ice.  While battling the marauding polar bear, the pursuit nearly ends in disaster, as a Native is killed and the villagers are terrorized by the spirit-struck polar bear.

Kincaid and the Legal Massacre

“James, I’m sending you and Moaka into a powder keg situation.  If you are not killed by the illegal freelance sealers, some politician will have your ass for slowing finances into political coffers, or worse yet for creating an international incident.  I hate to send you and Moaka out there, but the Treasury Department is having a hard time controlling the illegal harvesting of fur seal on the Pribilof Islands.”

James and Moaka, his Inuit guide, patrol the North Slopes of Alaska reporting about wildlife and their habitat, drawing maps, and establishing contact with the Natives.  Unexpectedly, James is summoned to Nome, Alaska and given instructions; he and Moaka are to report to the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to assist the Treasury Department in helping to control the illegal killing of the northern fur seal.  He is informed that he will be jumping into the middle of a dangerous situation that is being influenced by the greed of desperate men and the politicians that enhance the U.S. Treasury with every seal fur that is sold on the open market.     

Arriving at the islands, James fines the freelancers are encroaching on the government contractor’s allotment of northern fur seal harvest.  The years of illegal killing of females, immature males, and babies has taken its toll on the number of surviving species.

Being unaware of the circumstances, James’ wife Suzette and Tess innocently stumble into the tense and dangerous situation.  When the women discover the true nature of the effort of trying to save the fur seal, both women soon become entangled in the struggle to stop the illegal killing.

Sealers from around the world have been harvesting the Pribilof Islands for northern fur seal for generations and all efforts to stop the illegal harvesting comes close to causing international incidents.  

The conflict boils over when one of the freelancers, Ike Henderson, abducts Suzette, Tess, and one other Native woman for hostages until he gets his ship filled with seal furs.  James throws the rulebook away and organizes his crew into a daring plan to get the women back that could cost him his job, and possibly put him behind bars.  

As James and Moaka prepare to end the sealing season on the Pribilof Islands, they long to return to their home on the north slopes of Alaska.

Kincaid and the Killing Meadow
Can James and Moaka stop the senseless slaughter of Alaskan wild game for horns, hides, and body parts….sold to willing markets?

“The Department of Agriculture can support you only a limited amount.  The Department may be able to send assistance if you can get word to us in the Wrangell or Petersburg Office, but it will take some time to get help on the way. If I were you, I wouldn’t count too much on getting help if you’re in the wilderness.  Just don’t take on what you can’t handle and hope you don’t get overpowered by the poachers.”

James and Moaka are seasoned men of the wilderness and they will have to use every trick they possess to stay alive as they pursue the poachers who are decimating the wildlife of Alaska. They realize most of the time they will be on their own with a limited amount of help from the Department of Agriculture. James and Moaka will be dealing with men who are searching for fortunes and these men are hired by less than reputable marketers for the booty gained by the killing of wildlife. These men of fortune have demonstrated in the past they will let nothing stop them from collecting animal body parts and selling to the highest bidder, whether it be American or foreign markets. This novel displays historical events as documented by Congressional reports depicting the situation in the Alaskan Territory in 1903. In addition, this adventurous historical novel brings forth some of the early struggles that Alaska experienced becoming an orderly society.

 

Kincaid and the Alaska Treasure

GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Was the cry that was heard in many parts of the world as gold was discovered in untold amounts in Juneau, Alaska in 1880. The lure of fortunes in gold, the fur industry, the fishing industry, and the logging industry all brought may types of people to this unsettled land, called the Alaskan Territory. Sid Bonner, Manager of the Department of Agriculture, Wrangell Alaska, leaned back on the front of his desk, as he stated to James and Moaka, “The Territorial Governor, John Brady, has insisted that the Department of Agriculture be the lead agency in solving many of Alaska’s growing problems, and if we encounter difficulties, we are supposed to request help from our Seattle headquarters.” “I summit to you that we here in this office have been given an almost impossible task. It will be our objective to control the mining claims, to stop illegal fishing on or off Tlingit areas, to minimize lands damage during timber sales and contracts, to stop or at least slow down poaching of big game and illegal trophy fishing, and of course, we don’t want to forget about the new player on the Alaskan scene, the affluent tourist from the large cities down south, that wants to catch the biggest fish or bag the biggest moose or elk.” James Kincaid and Moaka are tested for their skills in the Alaskan Territory while trying to keep peace between elements of mining, fishing, hunting, and tourism as each industry grows in the year of 1904. They must keep law and order in the wilderness where no law exists. The only law that does exist is in local townships by local sheriffs. James and Moaka must at times be the judge and jury in the wilderness against wild game poaching, and attempt to bring the lawless men to justice to save Alaskan wildlife for the good of the legal hunt.


Kincaid and the Winter Rescue
 “James,” Soup stressed, “Don’t be so hard on yourself. We managed to save the rest of the dogs and that has to mean something.”

As the match was blown out by the night breeze, James picked up Minnie and carried her bloody mangled body to the toboggan and announced to the hunting party, “Tonight I lost a good sled dog because I didn’t do my job,” and then turned and disappeared into the darkness.

James and Moaka are tested to the height of their ability to survive in the wilderness as they are assigned to hunt for lost and missing hunting parties that have been stranded in the high mountains of Alaska by heavy early snow falls.

Their task becomes even more challenging when they realize the wolf population has exploded and the wolves are beginning to attack miners and hunters alike. James suspects that they may have some sort of parasite or disease, which is affecting their behavior.

As James and Moaka go about their urgent rescue missions: Bray fights in life and death combat with the wolves, James loses one of his sled dogs to the wolves, and men and pack horses are killed as a result of the wolves’ aggression. Although James and Moaka realize the wolves may be overpopulated, the animal is doing nothing but playing out his natural behavior, and James and Moaka must protect human lives.
 

Books can be obtained from the following distributors: Danforth Book Distribution, Hastings Book Stores.