NEW! Third Edition – with Index – available August 2018

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.

• 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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NEW! Third Edition – with Index – available August 2018

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 1935

These 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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