Atwood Cutting is the daughter of Tim and Kate Peters, pioneers in Alaska during the 1970s and '80s. That was before there were cellphones, four-wheelers, or solar panels. It took years for electricity and water to come.
The Peters family left the homestead in 1988, when Atwood was nine. Her mom said they'd "seen the elephant" up close, and it wasn't worth it to stay. After that, Atwood listened intently as her mother told the stories she had stored up from all those days back on that mountaintop. Also, it helps that Kate Peters kept a journal and pretty-much made a photographic record of life out there in the bush.
Atwood puts two and two together, and a new American saga is born!