Title: South to Alaska: A True Story of Courage and Survival from the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream
Author: Nancy Owens Barnes (Rushing River Press)
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A Journey Even Huck Finn Would Have Admired
South to Alaska Carries Readers from the Heartland of America to the Last Frontier…THE HARD WAY
A True Story of Courage, Perseverance and Survival
Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, ten-year-old Melvin sees a photograph of a cabin in the Alaska wilderness in his fourth-grade geography book and dreams of living there. Nearly fifty years later he builds a 47-foot boat in his Arkansas backyard, launches it on the Arkansas…