"Alaska has an immensely magnetic, lusty, fundamental drawing power." Evan Hill wrote that sentence years after his first trip to Alaska. Before statehood, Alaska for many young men from the West Coast meant salmon canneries and work that guaranteed travel and adventure-- a quest.Three Salmon Summers begins with Evan's father Louis Hill, who in 1909 at age 17, sailed from San Francisco to Bristol Bay. Twenty- six years later, during the Great Depression,...