This autobiography, written from Catherine Katies point of view, is about the survival skills of a wife and husband who defied the hostile elements, wild animals, and deprivations they encountered while homesteading in the wilderness along the Kenai River in Alaska in 19491962. Jack Coppock was a former member of the Tenth Mountain Infantry Ski Patrol and served in the Italian Alps during WWII, emerging with the reputation If you want to survive, stick with Jack; whereas Katie was at first a timid housewife who honed her own survival skills as she encountered the challenges she faced.
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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.
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