TO THE WILDS OF ALASKA: A New Life in the Alaskan Wilderness (Growing Up Wild Book 1)

They lived off-the-grid, long before there was a grid. And while they weren’t survivalists they survived, and even thrived, for months at a time in the subarctic wilderness without electricity, telephones, indoor plumbing or ready access to medical services.
Sylvia, an attractive, strong-minded 14-year-old who loved the outdoors, came to Alaska with her family in 1934, hoping to escape the despair and poverty of the Depression years in southern Oregon. Although their first winter on a forested 160-acre homestead was spent in a log cabin without windows or a floor, it was still better than back in Oregon where things were tough.
Three years later, while working at a fish cannery in Anchorage, Sylvia came to the notice of a good-looking, good-natured young man who had spent the previous two winters on the remote Yentna River with his older brother. Vernon was looking for a wife to move to the wilderness with him and immediately decided that she was the one.
Six weeks later they were married and ready to begin their life together in a world that no longer exists—a world of sled dogs, moose meat, fresh trout, snowshoes, outboard motors and wooden dories. They worked hard and faced many dangers, but enjoyed their life depending largely on their own resources and on each other.
While written for the general public, this book, as well as the other three in the series, is also suitable for older children who are interested in how families lived in earlier times and in far different circumstances than their own. The later books are written in part from the perspective of the children, as well as that of their parents.

• A CABIN IN THE WILDERNESS: Raising a Family in Old Alaska (Growing Up Wild Book 2)
• CHILDREN OF THE WILDERNESS: New Homes in New Places (Growing Up Wild Book 3)
• RETURN TO THE WILDERNESS: The Final Years off the Grid (Growing up Wild Book 4)
• Go North, Young Man: Modern Homesteading in Alaska
• Winds of Skilak: The Continuing Saga of one couple's adventures and survival in the Alaskan wilderness
• My Life In The Wilderness: An Alaskan's Story
• Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska: True Stories of Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness
• Elbow Room: A Tale of Tenacity on Kodiak Island, Alaska
• Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness
• To Hell With Togetherness: The Story of an Alaskan Family Living Together on a Remote Homestead West of Anchorage--1957-1962