More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women

They did what they had to do to survive the environment and live a full life. "Remarkable" women to us. Just getting by to them. It is all a matter of perspective. They made homes, gardens and communities. Women who developed the wilderness and loved it. They wrote about the wilderness; talked about it; and fought to protect it. Native women who did not want their world enveloped, absorbed, and forgotten. Explorers who loved what they discovered and worked to settle it. The book describes itself as a "collection of brief and absorbing biographies". Once I started to read I could not put it down. Eloquently written. I must now read the rest of the "More than Petticoats" series. After all, people are what history is all about.