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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis.
Velma Wallis' career as a bestselling author may have been destined from the start, but it most likely would have seemed improbable - if not fantastical - to her as a young girl growing up in a remote Alaskan village.
Velma Wallis' personal odyssey began in Fort Yukon, Alaska, a location accessible only by riverboat, airplane, snowmobile or dogsled. Having dropped out of school at the age of 13 in order to care for her siblings in the wake of their father's death, Wallis passed her high school equivalency test - earning her GED - and then surprised friends and relatives by choosing to move into an old trapping cabin 12 miles from Fort Yukon.
For almost a dozen years, she survived on what she gathered from hunting, fishing and trapping - a daring and strikingly independent lifestlye during which she struggled to define her personal identity.
