Your Alaskan Daughter, Your Alaskan Daughter

So, you want Adventure in Alaska! How about this? Would you marry a daring WWII pilot and head for Alaska, America’s final frontier? Would you go even if it meant surviving 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!Would you find discarded bread dough threatening to take over your outhouse amusing? – Harriet didn’t! Or 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.What would you do if the only available housing during an arctic winter was a summer cottage with frozen-shut doors? Could you save your baby, who was warming on the open oven door, when a fire started in the cottage’s attic? – Harriet did.Two Kansas school teachers survive homestead living by hunting, canning, starting a sawmill business, and building their own cabin. Three thousand miles from her Midwestern roots, Harriet finds peace in having everything she needs: food in the pantry, a tea kettle on the stove, a loving husband, and a brand-new baby. There is no need to travel back; she is home.Don’t miss this new third edition of Harriet’s touching and thrilling story, where 70 years later, Tommy introduces each batch of letters that recount his Mom’s incredible real-life Alaskan adventure in Your Alaskan Daughter!