Alaska History Series
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Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 1
$19.95
Up to 1900Add to cartThird Edition with easy-to-use grading system. Winner of 2019 Silver Medal in Education from Literary Classics International.
ISBN 978-1-940479-22-4
With more than 20,000 copies of Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume One in print books sold worldwide, readers are saying the entertaining nonfiction stories are keeping ages 9 to 99 spellbound!
Award-winning author Laurel Downing Bill brings Alaska history alive in this first book in the five-book series. It is filled with short stories highlighting Alaska’s colorful past from the arrival of the Native people thousands of years ago all the way up to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. She shares stories of the rushes for gold to the Koyukuk, Juneau-Douglas and Cook Inlet regions and features an extensive photo essay showing the various routes the gold-crazed prospectors forged to get to the gold fields.
Not only do the easy-to-read pages keep readers hooked, they also offer a window into the past with close to 350 historical photographs to complement the entertaining collection of stories.
Did you know:
• Mysterious petroglyphs dot Alaska's coastlines
• The last shot of the American Civil War boomed in the Bering Sea
• The Klondike Gold Rush began after a man dreamed of salmon covered in golden scalesThese stories and many more can be found in Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume One.
Anyone interested in Alaska history will love this book, according to Writer's Digest, as it is full of interesting and little-known facts about the state.
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Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 2
$19.95
1900-1912Add to cartThird Edition with easy-to-use grading system. Winner of 2019 Silver Medal in Education from Literary Classics International.
ISBN 978-940479-23-1
Award-winning author Laurel Downing Bill’s critically acclaimed four-book Alaska history series is a must-have for anyone interested in the Last Frontier. The books, which are appropriate for ages 9 to 99, are a delightful journey through Alaska's rich past.
Dozens of entertaining nonfiction short stories fill the pages of Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Two, which is filled with colorful short stories about Alaska's colorful past between 1900 and 1912. It includes accounts of lawmen that attempted to curtail murderers, thieves and conmen, early postmen who carved trails through the wilderness and adventurous souls who blazed the now-famous Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome.
These easy-to-read tales are complemented with close to 350 historical photographs mined from museums, libraries and universities across the state.
Did you know:- Murderers, conmen and crooked judges flocked to the beaches of Nome in 1899
- Famous lawman Wyatt Earp followed the gold rush and built a bar in Alaska
- The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century happened in Alaska in 1912
Critics and readers alike are saying that Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume Two is a true treasure trove and offers a stimulating and well-researched journey into Alaska’s past.
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Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 3
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1912-1935Add to cartThird Edition with easy-to-use grading system. Winner of 2019 Silver Medal in Education from Literary Classics International.
ISBN 978-1-940479-24-8
Critics and readers claim Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three is a must-read for anyone interested in Alaska's history!
Award-winning author Laurel Downing Bill has another winner in Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three. This volume is filled with entertaining nonfiction short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that bring to life Alaska's history from 1912 to 1935. Appropriate for ages 9 to 99, this book is a delightful journey through Alaska's growing pains as a territory of the United States.
Readers follow along as men with axes, hammers and mauls pound a path through the Last Frontier to lay railroad tracks that connect the deep-water port of Seward in the south to the territory’s interior town of Fairbanks in the north. Adventurers, aviators and farmers then blazed their own trails through Alaska’s wilderness.
Did you know:
• The Alaska Railroad spurred the birth of Alaska's largest town in 1915
• Mushers and dog teams risked death to deliver life-saving diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925
• Famous aviator Wiley post and Will Rogers crashed their plane and died near Barrow in 1935These and dozens more little-known stories fill the pages of Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three.
Bill has an extraordinary eye for the telling detail. She knows a good story when she hears it and knows how to tell it. Her history comes alive through her mastery of storytelling and close to 350 historical photographs.
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Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 4
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1935-1960Add to cartThird Edition with easy-to-use grading system. Winner of 2019 Silver Medal in Education from Literary Classics International.
ISBN 978-1-940479-25-5
Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four is a must-read for anyone interested in Alaska's history!
Award-winning author Laurel Downing Bill continues to bring Alaska history alive in the fourth volume of her Aunt Phil’s Trunk series. Following in the fast-paced and entertaining footsteps of the previous three volumes, Volume Four captures the essence of life in Alaska between 1935 and 1960.
This book’s easy-to-read nonfiction short stories – along with more-than 350 historical photographs – highlight major events of World War II, the Cold War era and Alaska's struggle for statehood.
Did you know:
• The Japanese bombed and occupied two islands in the Aleutian Chain during WWII
• The United States had a secret mission with Russia in Fairbanks
• Eskimo Scouts volunteered to guard more than 2,000 miles of Alaska's coastlineThese and dozens more little-known stories fill the pages of Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four.
This collection of stories combine clear writing and plenty of details without getting bogged down in minutia. They include both the big stories and many lesser-known incidents. And they are densely illustrated with photographs showing what life was like in Alaska's earlier days.
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Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 5
$19.95
1960-1984Add to cartSecond Edition with easy-to-use grading system. Winner of 2019 Silver Medal in Education from Literary Classics International.
ISBN 978-1-940479-26-2
This fifth book in the Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series highlights the first 25 years of statehood through short stories and hundreds of historical photographs. Not only did the optimistic citizens of the Great Land create a government from scratch in just a few years, they also dealt with many challenges. Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five shares firsthand accounts of survivors who experienced the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed that 9.2 temblor. It also features stories about the discovery of “black gold” on the North Slope in the late 1960s, and how Alaska's Native people fought for their land and won the largest settlement ever granted Native Americans. That agreement cleared the way for oil companies to build an 800-mile pipeline through some of the most rugged and remote country in the world during the 1970s.
Alaskans also learned that evil lurked under the midnight sun in the 1980s, as they ended the first 25 years of statehood with six mass murders.- Women in Anchorage became prey when a mild-mannered baker turned into a butcher.
- Residents of Manley Hot Springs disappeared soon after a drifter arrived in their quiet town.
- And several citizens of McCarthy died when a newcomer decided he wanted to destroy Alaska's oil pipeline.
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