Kumak and his family live near the edge of a great frozen river, and although their house is warm and cozy, none of them are happy, so they set out to see the village elder to learn how to find happiness again.
In the winter of 1925 a dog sled relay makes a life and death race against time through an Alaskan blizzard with a supply of serum needed to stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome.
Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America in the 1860s, becomes more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans.
Presents a tour of the state of Alaska, and describes the Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Trans-Alaska pipeline, the state capitol, Nome and the Iditarod, the Northern Lights, and much more.
The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.
Bucky and his father, prospecting for gold in Alaska in 1898, must overcome storms, dangerous mountain trails, and wilderness predators before confronting the final challenge of human treachery.
