Harriet Walker

Your Alaskan Daughter Harriet Walker

So you want Adventure in Alaska! How about this?Would you marry a daring WWII pilot and head for Alaska, America's final frontier?Harriet Walker did. Could you survive a harrowing trip over the Al-can highway, including a breakdown, a wild tow, and desperate measures to make repairs?The Walkers did, while Harriet was three months pregnant!Do you find discarded bread dough threatening to take over your outhouse amusing?Harriet didn't!What about a tumble on the steps leading to a 75 mile trip over wintry gravel roads to give birth to their first child?Harold, Harriet, and Tommy made it. Or what would you do if the only available housing during an arctic winter was a summer cottage with the doors frozen shut?The Walkers made do. Could you save your baby who was warming on the open oven door, when a fire starts in the attic?Harriet did. Would you think that Kansas school teachers could survive homestead living -- hunting, canning, starting a sawmill business, and building their own cabin?Harriet and Harold showed they could. Could you find peace amidst the struggle to survive in Alaska?3,000 miles from her Kansas roots, Harriet found everything she needed -- food in the pantry, a tea kettle on the stove, a loving husband, and a brand new baby. No need to travel, she was home. Don't miss Harriet's touching and thrilling story. Read the letters that recount her incredible real-life Alaskan adventure in Your Alaskan Daughter!