Synopses & Reviews
In 1926, Aileen Gallaher, a beautiful young woman, runs away from her difficult life in California, traveling alone by train to Seattle, then by steamship to Valdez, Alaska, where she is met by trapper Clyde C. "Slim" Williams and travels deep into the Copper River Valley. There, Aileen finds an even more difficult life. Williams had stayed behind after the Klondike godl rush, living off the land. Although she is half his age, Aileen finds happiness in thier raw existence spent in isolated cabins, facing the unrelenting challenges of wilderness survival. The fierce cold is worse than Aileen ever imagined, but she comes to love Slim and the Copper River Country. The only thing missing is female companionship. Enter Samme, Aileen's irrepressible teenage sister. SISTERs reveals their emotional coming of age in a region remote even by Alaska standards. Yet, the sisters live a charmed life.
Synopsis
Aileen fell in love with Slim and with the country, missing only female companionship. Enter Samme, her tenacious fifteen-year-old sister. Their lively and honest story details their emotional coming of age in a part of Alaska that is still considered remote.
Synopsis
In 1926 beautiful Aileen Gallaher left California, to join trapper Slim Williams in the wilderness of the Copper River Valley. Theirs was a perilous existence spent in isolated shelter cabins and tents, bucking heavy snows, uncertain river ice and temperatures that sometimes plummeted to 50 below. All she missed was female companionship, a problem solved with the arrival of her tenacious 15-year-old sister Samme,
Synopsis
Aileen Gallaher fell in love with ann Alaskan trapper and ran away with him to Alaska, missing only female companionship. Enter Samme, her tenacious fifteen-year-old sister. Their lively and honest story details their emotional coming of age in a part of Alaska that is still considered remote.
About the Author
Samme Gallaher, who survived her co-author sister, Aileen, is ninety-two and living in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She is working on a new book, Moonlight Madness. Aileen Gallaher passed away in 1994.