Third 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 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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Third 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 coastline

These 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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Second 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.

• 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.