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Don Butcher signs his seaplane and wilderness memoir “The Adventures of Gray Wolf,” 2002

Also The Adventures of Gray Wolf 2002 · Don Butcher Beaver Boat-Tique book signing

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Date2002-07-27
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Summary

Don Butcher held a July 27, 2002 book-signing party at the Beaver Boat-Tique for The Adventures of Gray Wolf. The Beacon said the first printing had 1,362 copies and drew on Butcher’s decades of seaplane travel, fishing, hunting, and wilderness experiences.

Evidence limits

The notice documents publication and a signing, not the book’s full contents, sales, or independent verification of the stories.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “The Adventures of Gray Wolf.”
    Reports Don Butcher’s July 27 signing at the Beaver Boat-Tique, the first printing of 1,362 copies, and the book’s stories from more than forty years of seaplane travel, fishing, hunting, and northern wilderness adventures. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the book-signing report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-08_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Don Butcher signs his seaplane and wilderness memoir “The Adventures of Gray Wolf,” 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-don-butcher-gray-wolf-book-signing-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “The Adventures of Gray Wolf.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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