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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
"A chance to see the world! My mother's good red blood was in my
veins, and if she could be a guiding light in a homestead on the
prairies, I could be the same in a native village." That was May
Wynne's immediate reaction to the chance to teach in a remote
Eskimo village in Alaska. The year was 1916, and May, the daughter
of a pioneer Kansas family, was two years out of teachers' college
and ready for adventure. Life in Alaska is an engaging addition to
the literature of women settlers in the Far North, and a rare
description of daily life in a place and time-the Kuskokwim River
region in early territorial days-not so well known to readers as
the Yukon and camps of the gold rush era. May Wynne was the only
schoolteacher in the village of Akiak, on the Kuskokwim. Her
account provides a picture of government educational policy in
practice and of Eskimo life at a time of transition. Besides
teaching the Eskimo children, she distributed supplies for men in
charge of government reindeer herds, grew a demonstration vegetable
garden, and maintained a first aid station. She learned much from
the Eskimos, even how to make fish nets, and observed their
mingling with a community of miners, traders, and herders across
the river. May Wynne's story is a romance in the fullest sense of
that word, for while she was in Alaska she married Frank Lamb, a
young doctor sent by the U.S. government to open a hospital in
Akiak. The tragedy that occurred a year after their marriage
hastened her return to the States.
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