![]() ![]() Bonnie’s memoir chronicles their first three years of cabin life, it’s challenges and joys. ![]() But their location near town makes their lifestyle much easier.īonnie and Sam arrived in late spring and began cutting trees, stripping logs, and built a rustic cabin home before winter arrived. A funny side note, my sister and her husband have built a cabin home in Sterling and love it there. They searched for property until they came upon land on Caribou Island in remote Skilak Lake near Sterling, Alaska. So in 1980, at thirty-six years of age for Sam and twenty-five for Bonnie, they sold their home and packed up for the long drive to Alaska. They started out with a traditional town life, but Sam had a dream of living off the land in Alaska. Bonnie was a city girl, but Sam grew up on a farm where he learned how to hunt and became a jack-of-all-trades. Bonnie and her husband Sam were from Ohio. Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness is the memoir of Bonnie Rose Ward. ![]() I’d read most of the other titles on her winter reading list, but this book about Alaskan wilderness living was new to me. A friend of mine, Vicky, recommended this book on her blog Tramps Camp. ![]()
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