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Short stories and hundreds of historical photographs bring Alaska's history alive during the 1900-1912 time frame. This book features gold rushes to Nome, Fairbanks and the Iditarod regions of the Last Frontier. It also shares stories from early law and order years, blazing the Iditarod Trail and how Alaska became a territory of the United States. Did you know: • Hollywood stars played Alaska’s vaudeville circuit during the gold-rush days? • Famous lawman Wyatt Earp followed the gold rush and built a bar in Nome? • The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century happened in Alaska in 1912? These stories and more fill the pages of Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Two. This series is suitable for ages 9 to 99.
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Laurel Downing Bill, a third-generation Alaskan, earned a degree in journalism (minor in history) from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2003. She has been researching and writing about Alaska's history ever since she inherited her Aunt Phyllis Downing Carlson's notes, stories and research into the 49th state's incredible past. The Aunt Phil's Trunk series, of which there are five volumes now, earned the 2016 Literary Classics International award for Best Nonfiction Series and Best Historical Nonfiction. Downing Bill lives in Anchorage and continues to research and write articles about Alaska for various magazines and newspapers.
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