The Tales from Sleeping Moose quadrilogy recounts true experiences encountered while pioneering in bush Alaska in the 1970s and '80s. Since this odyssey immediately precedes the invention of four-wheelers, cellphones and silicon chip instruments, it might be difficult to replicate today. Most folks would hesitate to abandon their modern comforts. Volume 2 is about how two settlers built a post-and-beam home on an isolated mountain. There's some basic information about building with beams; and a lot about the vehicles they ...
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The Tales from Sleeping Moose quadrilogy recounts true experiences encountered while pioneering in bush Alaska in the 1970s and '80s. Since this odyssey immediately precedes the invention of four-wheelers, cellphones and silicon chip instruments, it might be difficult to replicate today. Most folks would hesitate to abandon their modern comforts. Volume 2 is about how two settlers built a post-and-beam home on an isolated mountain. There's some basic information about building with beams; and a lot about the vehicles they used to get up and down the road. That will be interesting to some readers. And since Kate was pregnant at the time, her letters to her mother should be of interest to others. Suffice it to say, the two worked hard to accomplish what they did eventually accomplish. Today some of us can't even imagine living in the ways described here. For others, it will be a nostalgic walk through earlier times. The common attraction is a sense of adventure which draws us away from our comforts and out into the unknown. "Going to see the Elephant," those on the wagon trains used to call it. My mama called it, "Going for the brass ring," which was a harkening back to her merry-go-round rides. Through these stories, city dwellers of the Twenty-First Century can still embrace some essence of The American Pioneer experience, without giving up the plumbing and heating, the cellphones and computers, or the careers.
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