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Arctic daughter : a wilderness journey / by Jean Aspen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7882
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aspen, Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aspen, Jean.
- Beisel, Phil, 1948-2008.
- Beisel, Phil.
- Brooks Range (Alaska)--Biography.
- Brooks Range (Alaska).
- Pioneers--Alaska--Brooks Range--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Alaska--Description and travel.
- Alaska.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska--Brooks Range.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Travel.
- Alaska--Brooks Range.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7882)
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Bergamot Books, 1988
- Summary:
- Jean Aspen (daughter of Alaskan adventurers Constance and Bud Helmericks), then 22 years old, set out with her soon-to-be husband Phil from Tucson to Alaska where they built a cabin in the Brooks Range. This book tells their true adventure during the first of four years as they homesteaded in the wilderness.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7882: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Review by Donna Horn in Women Outdoors Magazine, Summer 1989, laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0943127009
- 9780943127002
- OCLC:
- 19046984
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