Pengarang: Catherine Ferguson

The authors have worked in tandem on this autobiography for many years. Catherine Ferguson was valedictorian of her high school class and graduated from business college before she married Jack Coppock and moved to Alaska. She published poetry, articles, and photos of her thirteen years of homestead life in Alaska in the Christian Science Monitor worldwide newspaper. She entered Alaska as a timid housewife and emerged as a courageous survivor. Jeanne Marie Peters has a BFA in theatre and a creative writing minor from Southern Oregon State College (now university) in Ashland, Oregon. She has published short stories and poems and coauthored with her daughter, Theresa Austin, two books with Trafford publishing, 24 Hours in the Life of Elizabeth and Legend of the Mermaid’s Tear.