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Ruth Allman

Ruth Collin Allman was an Alaskan pioneer, author, educator, and sourdough historian. She and her husband Jack lived in Southeast Alaska in Excursion Inlet and established Tongass Lodge, where she developed many of her sourdough recipes. Allman's Alaska Sourdough has been in print for over thirty-five years and remains a perennial best seller. She passed away in 1989 at the age of eighty-four.