By Ronald N. Simpson. This is the Native tale of Ahtna Chief Nicolai's life and curse that would aggresively pursue the railroad men, miners, and engineers and all others who provoked the ancient Indian spirits of the Copper River Valley, as told by the oldest grandsons of the greatest of Alaska's Athabascan chiefs and medicine men-Skolai Nicolai, the tyone of Taral. Softcover, many black & white photographs, 2001, 800p.