After many years of bouncing back and forth between Michigan and Alaska the wife and I are making the move permanently this spring. We are looking for some good reads about the great land. Anyone have ideas of books with a woman's point of view the wife just finished The final frontiersman and is reading Follow me to Alaska. Any ideas are greatly appreciated

A friend of mine who was one of only a handful of lady Registered Guides licensed in Alaska wrote "Walk Softly With Me." By Sharon McLeod-Everette

Pete

Thank you. All book ideas appreciated.

Alaskas Wolf Man is my favorite

Love this book. Setup like short stories. Pick it up and put it down as you feel like it. Great reading.
Don LaFountain

Alaska's Wolf Man is my all time favorite but for a woman's perspective.... here is a few you will both like.

Shadows on the Koyukuk, by Sidney Huntington
Alaska's Homesteaders, by Martha Markey
Arctic Homestead, by Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser

"Trapline twins" by Miki Collins

"Born on Snowshoes" by Evelyn Berglund Shore

" On the edge of Nowhere" by James Huntington

Any of Dan O'Neill's books

Oh man! AK Wolf Man is such an awesome book! An all time favorite in our house.

Also a couple I remember enjoying were the Ray Tremblay books Trails of an Alaskan Trapper and On Patrol True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden

The Wilderness of Denali, by Sheldon.

Excellent read !! Out of print but you can still download an electronic copy


Another lighter read, and more contemporary is:

Pappa Was a Bush Pilot...by Sally McMahan Pollen


Also several books by Connie Helmricks. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=connie++helmricks%2C+books

Wager With The Wind...Don Sheldon Story. James M Greiner previous Alaska Trappers Association magazine editor until his death.
Great read.

The best part of the book is the account of rescuing members of a military exploratory team in a river boat that had capsized in the canyon of the Susitna River with his skills in a float plane!

The Alaska Trappers Association has some good books listed on thier webpage store.

https://www.alaskatrappers.org/handbook.html

Born on Snowshoes is quite the story, those were some tough women!

I second Trapline Twins and the sequel, Riding the Wild Side of Denali, by Miki and Julie Collins. Great books written by two women who made their living trapping.

I have Alaska wolf man and am reading on the edge of nowhere right now . Frank Glaser was quite a man.. Thanks for all the ideas I'm ordering them all. If anyone needs lodging on the kenai this summer look me up we have cabins and great bank fishing for reds and 20 percent discount for Alaska residents.

A couple I enjoyed but are not listed here are Alaska bush rat governor and another I think was called alaska's last great bear man by Pinnel or about him anyway a good book

If you're into an Alaskan hunting novel, check out "The Last Hunt".

Both "Alaska Wolf Man" and "Bush Rat Governor" were fantastic.

Jack

“Winds of skilak” is a woman’s perspective of moving to an island on a skilak lake with her husband. Not as good as the previously listed books but my wife liked it.

Thanks Nate we've already read that one.

The Winter Walk, takes place on the Shaktoolik River

true story of survival

Alaska Women Write is a collection edited by Dana Stabenow that my wife enjoyed. Goodbye Boise, Hello Alaska by Cora Holmes is the story of her family's move to a ranch on Umnak Island in the Aleutians. She may also enjoy Kachemak Bay Years by Elsa Pedersen.

North of the Sun by Fred Hatfield is one of my favorites. Another good one is Alaska Game Trails with a Master Guide, this is about Hal Waugh, by Charles Keim.

I also really like Russell Anabel's writings.

You mentioned Last of the Great Brown Bear Men. It is about Pinnell and Talifson by Marvin Clark. He did a second book also, Track of the Kodiak.

Final Frontersman about Heimo and Edna Korth great book about homesteading in AK the real deal and they are still doing it. James Campbell author I think

Now that the bus is gone, Into The Wild.
A step by step guide on what not to do.

this is mine too

Northwest of the World, by Olaf Swenson. You can find it used on Abe books. Was printed in the '40s, it should be in everyone's collection. About a Fur buyer from Seattle in northeast coastal Siberia and Alaska. He and Irwin Goldberg's dad were friends. Any trappers who have been around for a while in the NW and Alaska know Goldberg.
I know the epilogue to the book, Irwin told me about it. I'll only tell you after you read the book though.

Goldberg had an incredible memory for names.


One other book that is a classic...........Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost. by G.O Young

That was an exceptional book and adventure!