| Life in Alaska: The Reminiscences of a Kansas Woman, 1916-1919 Contributor(s): Lamb, May Wynne (Author), Zimmerman, Dorothy Wynne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803279272 ISBN-13: 9780803279278 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1988 Annotation: 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 Adiak. The tragedy that occurred a year after their marriage hastened her return to the states. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87030023 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.34" W x 8.21" (0.51 lbs) 171 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Alaska - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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'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. May Wynne Lamb wrote these reminiscences, never before published, in the 1930s. They have been edited and introduced by Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman, a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an authority on George Sand, and editor of The Country Waif. |
