Raising Ourselves - Paperback
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Raising Ourselves
Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her
coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where
she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is
defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon.
Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around
the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence
and laughter,...
Velma Wallis' career as a bestselling author would have seemed improbable - if not fantastical - to her as a young girl.
Wallis' personal odyssey began in the remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Having dropped out of school at age 13 to care for her siblings after their father's death, Wallis earned her GED and then surprised friends and relatives by moving into an old trapping cabin 12...
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