Your Alaskan Daughter

by Harriet Walker

So you want Adventure in Alaska! How about this? Would you marry a daring WWII pilot and head for Alaska, America's final frontier? Harriet Walker did. Could you survive a harrowing trip over the Al-can highway, including a breakdown, a wild tow, and desperate measures to make repairs? The Walkers did, while Harriet was three months pregnant! Do you find discarded bread dough threatening to take over your outhouse amusing? Harriet didn't! What about a tumble on the steps leading to a 75 mile trip over wintry gravel roads to give birth to their first child? Harold, Harriet, and Tommy made it. Or what would you do if the only available housing during an arctic winter was a summer cottage with the doors frozen shut? The Walkers made do. Could you save your baby who was warming on the open oven door, when a fire starts in the attic? Harriet did. Would you think that Kansas school teachers could survive homestead living -- hunting, canning, starting a sawmill business, and building their own cabin? Harriet and Harold showed they could. Could you find peace amidst the struggle to survive in Alaska? 3,000 miles from her Kansas roots, Harriet found everything she needed -- food in the pantry, a tea kettle on the stove, a loving husband, and a brand new baby. No need to travel, she was home. Don't miss Harriet's touching and thrilling story. Read the letters that recount her incredible real-life Alaskan adventure in Your Alaskan Daughter!

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Melanie Kuss · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun read

This was a fun read and I say that because I don’t think they face any real hardships. Because of the way it is written, letters reviewed, there were many things I would have liked to see fleshed out more.

[Dan Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

The adventures of Harriet Walker who settled in Hope, Alaska. Great story of why and how they ended up where they did.

[mary m miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most Enjoyable!

A delightful, easy read. Most books about Alaska are of people living in true wilderness, so to read it from the perspective of a small town dweller was both illuminating and enjoyable.

[Marcia Shaffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a great book, not only the story but the feeling like you were living in Alaska with them a must read

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

this memoir in the form of letters from Hope Alaska was fun and easy to read. Alas, 70 years later, civilization and technology have come to what was once wild. The major industry is now tourism

[Alex]

Read for book club. Enjoyed this collection of letters written in Alaska before it became a state!