Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three

This third book in the Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series is filled with entertaining short stories and hundreds of historical photographs covering the Last Frontier's past from 1912 to 1935. Did you know: · The Alaska Railroad spurred the birth of Alaska's largest town in 1915? · Mushers and dogs risked death to deliver life-saving diphtheria serum to Nome 1925? · Aviator Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed their plane and died near Barrow 1935? From the early days of the Alaska Railroad to one of the the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th Century, the pages of Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three is sure to keep readers from ages 9 to 99 spellbound.

Third-generation Alaskan Laurel Downing Bill has turned her Alaska historian aunt's work into a lovely series of books that highlight Alaska's colorful past. Downing Bill earned a degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2003 and wrote several award-winning articles while employed as a reporter for the Anchorage Chronicle newspaper from 2002-2004. Her weekly Alaska history column, titled "Aunt Phil's Trunk," was a favorite with the paper's subscribers. Bill's award-winning stories have appeared in newspapers throughout Alaska, as well as Alaska Magazine, Mushing magazine and First Alaskans magazine. Her weekly TV show, Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, appears on the CBS affiliate KTVA Channel 11 every Monday morning in Alaska.