Draft:Lone Janson

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Lone E. Janson (1927–2019) was an American author who wrote about historical subjects. In 1982, she received the James H. Ducker Historian of the Year from the Alaska Historical Society.

U.S. senator Bob Bartlett wrote the foreword to her book The Copper Spike.

Walter B. Parker described her book Copper Spike as being from the vivid and raw perspective of one Alaskan who had to live with the consequences of governmental and corporate decision-making. The book is listed among selected books about Alaskans in an Alaska Department of Education teacher's guide.

She also wrote a book about Merle "Mudhole" Smith, a self-taught Kansas barnstormer turned Alaska bush pilot.

She married Richard Janson Jr. and had three children.

Writings

 * Copper Spike (1975)
 * Mudhole Smith, Alaska Flier (1981)
 * Those Alaska Blues: A Fox Tale (1986)
 * Penny in My Shoe: Vagabond Girl in Frontier Alaska 1945-1947