Author: Pinson, Elizabeth
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Alaska's Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century
Price: $14.98
Publisher: Utah State University Press : October 2004
Seller ID: 393037
ISBN-13: 9780874215915
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, with a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and a father of German heritage. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of six, despite a harrowing, long midwinter sled ride to rescue her, lost both her legs to frostbite when her grandparents, with whom she was spending...
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