This book is composed of three sections, about different parts of Alaska. The jewel of three is the third and longest part, a description of the people who live in the "neighborhood" of Eagle, Alaska. It produces an intriguing portrait of the townspeople, the Indian village residents, and the "river people" (those who live along the Yukon, downstream from Eagle). The method of their livelihood, their ideas about the future, and the interaction with their neighbors are all described.

This book was interesting to me on two levels: First, it produces a complete picture of a community and shows the full hoary glory of small-town life, with an Alaskan twist. Second, it gives a great picture of frontier life, which aside from differences of technology, is probably much the same as the lifestyle of the European settlers and aboriginal peoples of the American West.

Mailed to a relative in Granby, CT.