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.