More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women (More than Petticoats Series)

By Cherry Jones and Cherry Lyon Jones

Book Overview

How did Alaska become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women recognizes the women who shaped the Last Frontier. The lives of female teachers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762737980
• ISBN13: 9780762737987
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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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.